Kids Row drew nearly a dozen young entrepreneurs Sunday

by Dan McClelland

The excitement of sales was commonly felt by the nearly one dozen young and eager vendors inside Park Street’s Spruce & Hemlock when the store owners, Andrew and Faith McClelland, offered up some of their place for a “Kids Row” on Sunday afternoon.

Traffic was brisk during the four-hour event as shoppers- many of them parents, grandparents and family members of the young entrepreneurs- came to see all the things the kids had made for their booths and to support them.

The event was organized by Volunteer Hayley LaLonde, whose first Kids Row venture was also a hit at the town recreation department’s Oktupperfest last September in Flanders Park. Hayley and her daughter Payton also had their own booth, selling Reindeer food.

The wares sold that day by the youngsters included cookies and other Christmas treats, homemade ornaments, crafts, jewelry, trinkets of all sorts and even plants at the Snye booth.

All items offered by the youthful vendors were priced inexpensively for the most part so that even the youngest shopper could afford them.