Annual Spring City Music and Market Festival

Vendors lined Main Street yesterday for Spring City's annual music and market day festival. A band played in the middle of the street as locals visited all the vendors. There was scarves made in memory of Gabby Vogel; homemade candles; handmade jewelry; crafters; Alex's Lemonade Stand and more.

Face painters painted the faces of the eager children, and the event had hair spray that dyed their hair all different colors. The food was made possible by the Spring City Lions Club.

The Spring City revitalization group are the ones who organized this event.

"It took a lot of time to put this together," said Crystal Dascher, member of the Spring City revitalization group. "But knowing that it was for a good purpose made it all work it. It makes me so happy to see the community turn out for something like this."

To see the community come out in support of annual events like this is awesome, and one crafter in particular loves events like these because it helps her to help raise awareness to an important cause: childhood cancer.

"My daughter Felicia is a survivor of kidney cancer," said mother Renee Frugoli. "We do a lot of events in the community for Alex's Lemonade. It's a great way to get out and get involved by educating people and making them aware of childhood cancer. It's important to get out there and show them that every child should have the chance to survive and celebrate life."

One vendor, Mindy Touhey, was so excited to be involved in the Spring City festival because her and her sister, Elizabeth Rega, just opened up a cake shop and purchased the store at 117 North Main Street in Spring City.

"My sister and I are so excited to be opening our cake shop, Cake Couture in Spring City," Touhey said. "We do custom cakes for weddings, special events, and more!"

People don't realize, however, that not only does a lot of planning go into an event like this, but the clean up afterwards is a lot too. And Spring City revitalization group is responsible for that too.

"The revitalization group is a group in which businesses and people of the community keep communications open," says revitalization member Christina Turek. "We make sure the town looks nice: we hang the hanging baskets, keep the streets clean, etc.”