Belsniekel Craft Show Slated For Now. 28
BOYERTOWN - As the holiday
season approaches, members of
the Boyertown Area Historical
Society are beginning preparations
for their Sixteenth Annual
Belsniekel Craft Show. This year’s
show will be held Friday, Nov. 28
from noon to 8 p.m. and Saturday,
Nov. 29 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at
the Boyertown Junior High School,
West, and Boyertown Elementary
School, Second and Madison
Streets, Boyertown.
Over 130 local and regional
craftsmen will participate in the
show. A wide variety of crafts,
including baskets, watercolors,
decoys, pine cone art, wood, tin
and papier mache folk art will be
displayed.
Hooked rugs, ceramics, dolls
and doll clothing, pressed flowers,
herbs, pottery, children’s clothing,
counted)thread embroidery,
leatherworking, jewelry, quilts,
soft sculpture and a host of other
crafts will also be available.
Refreshments will be available
at the Junior High School. A
donation of $3 is requested and
children under 12 will be admitted
free if accompanied by an adult.
The Belsnickel Craft Show has
become a community tradition and
society members hope even more
people will enjoy the show this
year.
Chairman of the event is Grace
John, who will be assisted by Pat
Fedor, Phyllis Stauffer, Jim
Masom, Janet Reed, Holly K.
Green and Ethel Mercer.
Elizabeth Foster shows a few handcrafted models that will
be offered for sale during the Belsnickel Craft Show to be
held Nov. 28 and 29 at the Boyertown Junior High School,
West, and Boyertown Elementary School.
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prevent currency chaos later in
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“Many teenagers enjoy a false
sense of affluence because their
money is discretionary, above and
beyond the necessities of life,”
says Eoxane Whittaker, Kent
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home economics. “They don’t have
to spend money on rent and
groceries because they are still
living at home.”
According to Whittaker, recent
studies show that teens as a group
spend $4B billion a year on such
popular items as stereos, radios,
watches, sporting equipment and
cars. This figure does not include
money spent by families on their
teens.
“This premature affluence with
few financial responsibilities can
cause troubles later for teens,”
Whittaker says. “When the big
jump comes from living with the
family to living alone, the young
person can land in a financial
mess. While the young adult may
have already acquired a spending
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them where the money goes. Teens
often know how much their parents
earn, but rarely know how much
the parents pay out in bills.”
Whittaker says frank discussions
can also ease the tension in a
family when the teen believes his
or her share of the family income
isn’t large enough.
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teenagers form a spending plan,
working out what items the teens
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parents need to help the teens
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other nine months.”
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Whittaker says. “Allow them to
make mistakes. They will
probably run out of money or
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