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Community center hosts annual fall festival
Wilma Massie, at right, assists Jenny Stover as she looks at merchandise during the fourth annual Fall Festival on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, at the Greenbottom Community & Senior Citizen Center.
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LESAGE -- Keeping the Greenbottom Community & Senior Center open is no easy task, but one that Donna Stephens and others think is important.
"We try to have at least one event a month," Stephens said Saturday during the fourth annual Fall Festival at the community center at 7863 Ohio River Road. "We have a covered dish dinner on Fridays. We rent the building for community events and wedding receptions."
Community residents bought the old church building in 2000 and have kept the doors open ever since, said Barbara Knight, a member of the community center board.
"We didn't have anything in the community, so we decided to buy it," she said. "It helps give the area an identity. We don't have enough volunteers, but we do what we can."
Attendance at the fall festival was a little slow Saturday, Stephens said.
Karen LeGrand of Lesage, one of the crafters, said she's been selling country crafts for more than 10 years.
"It's a hobby," he said. "I'm doing this to help the center."
John Miller of Gallipolis, Ohio, another crafter, was selling lamps he made from juice cans and tin cans.
"I cut them with acetylene torches," he said. He makes electric lamps and lamps that burn oil. "It's a good pastime. I'm retired. I was a manufacturing engineer. I've been doing this for three years. Folks seem to like them. It's something different."
Upcoming events at the community center include a Christmas party from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 12. The seventh annual chili cook-off is set for 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 16.
