Resources Fair

Today Gary and I went to a resource fair at our local Senior Center. Basically it was a fair that had vendors showing all the things that a senior might want or need such as retirement homes, rehabilitation centers hearing aids and well...you get the idea. Each vendor had to put up a $25+ gift basket for a door prize and many had other prizes you could win at their table. Yeah...a way to drum up business and get names of potential customers but still some nice prizes and gift baskets.

Nearly every table had pens, nice ones and not just the cheap stick bics, candy and other handy dandy little things like pill containers for the purse, bandaid packets, hand sanitizer, pocket magnifiers, cick for the visor for sunglasses and our local police had nice little lights for being safe plus other things. . Our local state rep had all sorts of nice things like chapstick, small pocket leatherman type gadget, tote bags,key rings, maps and other small things. There were tote bags filled with info and gifts by many also. All in all...sorta like trick or treating for the older kids..LOL. Of course there were many cookies and fresh strawberries and one vendor even had some hot food-zita and tomato sauce. I also got some full size microwave popcorn from the table of the apartments for senior living where my brother lives. I was sorta hoping to win 2 weeks of lessons and an in-home small chord organ. sigh...no call for that one. You did not have to be present to win anything. I filled out a ton of entries though as one never knows if you win if you don't enter. It was a fun couple of hours.