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Stop Shop & Support

Monday, December 10, 2012

PHOTOS: Faces from Stop, Shop & Support Fair this Weekend

See some of the vendors and businesses featured at this weekend's holiday fair featuring local women.

Women from all over South St. Louis County gathered in Concord this weekend to shop, sell and network at the first Stop, Shop & Support event featuring local, independent female entrepreneurs. Kirsten Holschen, who makes aquariums out of vintage television sets, made her first public appearance at this weekend’s vendor fair. Click on the photos above to meet more of the vendors from Stop, Shop and Support. People usually order their aquariums online, but Holschen said she came to the vendor fair to show her creations in person and to support her friend and fellow Fox alumna, April Bobbish, who had the idea for the fair in the first place. Holschen takes a month to craft her custom aquariums, which she builds in TV sets she find in alleys …

Kimberly Tucker

4:54 pm on Monday, December 10, 2012

It was such a pleasure meeting and getting to know the other vendors! A spirit of community really resided among us...each offering suggestions to one another on how to merchandise wares...along with some uber fun bartering...MY FAV! :-) Thanks again to April & Lindsay! Kim Tucker, Haute' Haus Fashions, LLC.   more ›

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Shopping Event Benefits Pet Food Pantry

This weekend's two-day shopping event featuring local, independent women entrepreneurs also benefits the Jefferson County Pet Food Pantry.

If you’re heading to today’s holiday vendor fair featuring local, independent businesses run by women, be sure to bring some pet food along with you! Stop, Shop & Support will benefit the Jefferson County Pet Food Pantry, which helps provide food to families in need. “The shelters are packed full of highly adoptable animals who have been dumped or abandoned because the owners didn’t have the resources to care for them,” said Debby Mikles, founder of the pet food pantry. “I give pet food to low income residents of Jefferson County so they can keep their beloved pets at home and not have to surrender them.” The pantry—which was founded and is run locally by Mikles—is a perfect charitable choice for the holiday vendor fair featuring …

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