The Prairie Girls Vintage Market has turned its sights to the next generation to be this year’s donation recipients.
The Boys and Girls Club of Cochrane and Area will receive a portion of admission fees from Cochrane’s second annual Vintage Market, put on by sisters Tanya Fehr and Leah Faulkner.
“The kids are our future,” Fehr said. “[The Boys and Girls Club of Cochrane and Area] do tons of positive work for our children.”
The sisters, also known as the Prairie Girls, came together last year to bring the first Vintage Market to Cochrane with positive results.
“It went way better than expected,” Fehr said. “We had a wonderful turnout [last year]… Our market is all based on authentically old, vintage, antique products. There is nothing new at our markets.”
Last year’s market hosted 26 vendors with donations that went towards the Cochrane Activettes Food Bank, according to Fehr.
“Cochrane is a very supportive community for small businesses and especially supportive of markets such as this,” Fehr said.
The Vintage Market will host a variety of vendors from Cochrane and the surrounding area.
“Me and my sister call it ‘junking,” said Fehr. “We love to find what other people may call junk – farmers do not throw anything away, it just goes to piles in their farms and it is amazing when you get creative with what you can repurpose these items into.”
This year, attendees can expect up to 42 different vendors with each artisan to set up their space to mirror how their store would look. Instead of just a table, each vendor will have a space of 10x10, 10x15 or 10x20 at the Cochrane Agricultural Society.
“There is a variety of talented people in the market who are repurposing or painting pieces, or just finding architectural salvage and incorporating it into new pieces,” Fehr said. “We encourage everyone to stop by our booth – we would love to know your stories, because every old item we [repurpose] has a story, so this is part of our journey.”
The Vintage Market will be hosted at the Ag Society Sept. 12 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. All of the vendors are listed on the Prairie Girls Vintage Market Facebook page, along with more information.
“[The market] creates a sense of community, not competition,” Fehr added.
“We want to empower and encourage all of us to come together and do what we love.”
