Editor, Gazette-Journal:

We would like to voice our appreciation to all the vendors and crafters for a fabulous 2011 Spring Vendor Expo on Saturday, April 30, at the Piankatank Ruritan Club. All of your hard work, effort and preparation helped to make a spectacular show.

Also, a special thanks to our guests from the Gloucester-Mathews Humane Society, Relay for Life’s Chesapeake Crusaders, and the Mathews Volunteer Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary for donating their time to attend the show and providing such wonderful services to our community. We hope the show helped promote and raise awareness for the awesome volunteer work that you do throughout Mathews and Gloucester.

An extra special thanks to the community for their patronage and support of our local vendors and home businesses. We hope to see you all at the next show planned for the fall.

Hope Lowe

Grimstead, Va.
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