Crafts to be sold by silent auction

WELLINGTON – Sept.19, 2025 – All people aged 60 years and up from the Evangeline and surrounding areas, including residents of Le Chez-Nous community care centre and Le Bel âge complex, are invited to prepare and submit handcrafts and art of all kinds to a 2025 Co-op and Small Business Weeks contest. At the same time, they’ll be helping out a local playground.

In the past, this contest was for knitted pieces only, but this year, organizers wanted to expand the contest so decided to open it up to all kinds of arts and handcrafts, including knitting, woodwork, metalwork, pottery, cultural products, decors, paintings, etc.

Participating artisans will get a chance to win a $100 gift card from Wellington Co-op (donated by the Acadian and Francophone Chamber of Commerce of PEI) along with several other prizes from various partners and sponsors. At the same time, their crafts will be sold through a silent auction at Wellington Co-op; all revenues will help purchase equipment for the ABCD Playground at Evangeline School in Abram-Village.

Participants are asked to attach a piece of paper with their name, address and phone number to each of their submitted crafts since each one represents a separate entry in the contest. All creations must be brought to the Wellington Co-op Oct. 1-14. They will be sold through a silent auction at the Co-op Oct. 14-17. Anyone interested in buying any of the pieces will be able to make an offer on bidding sheets provided for each piece. Any unsold pieces will be donated to the West Prince Caring Cupboard food bank, Tyne Valley Branch.

Contest partners include the Acadian and Francophone Chamber of Commerce of PEI the Wellington Co-op, the Provincial Credit Union, the Conseil scolaire-communautaire Évangéline, RDÉE Prince Edward Island and the Wellington Rural Action Centre.

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PHOTO: The art and handcrafts contest being organised for 2025 Co-op and Small Business Weeks, open to people aged 60 years and over, will run Oct. 1-14. Among the artistes and artisans participating in the contest are, seated from left, Angèle Arsenault, Claudette Gallant, and Colette Gallant; and standing, Melvin Gallant. They are pictured with three of the contest organizers, who are displaying some of the other crafts that have already been submitted: Alecia Arsenault from the Acadian and Francophone Chamber of Commerce of PEI, Diane McInnis from the Provincial Credit Union (Évangéline branch), and Chris O’Brien from the Wellington Co-op.

 

For details:
Raymond J. Arsenault
Manager
Acadian and Francophone Chamber of Commerce of PEI
raymond@rdeeipe.org
902-960-1285