First Aid Squad hosts craft and flower sale

WALL TOWNSHIP — The Wall Community First Aid Squad hosted a spring flower and craft sale on Friday and Saturday last week, just in time for residents to grab some items to spruce up their Easter.

Wall Community First Aid Squad Captain Mathew Giachetti spoke to The Coast Star about the origin of the flower and craft sale, saying it’s a longstanding tradition for the squad to make some money for operations.

“I’ve been here for 20 years, and we’ve done this even before me,” Giachetti said. “It helps us keep the lights on, get supplies for the rigs and things like that.”

President of the Wall Community First Aid Squad, Christine Mayer, said the squad goes about getting vendors mostly by word of mouth through current members and their contacts, and that the fair grows each year.

“Some of our past members stop by every year, and we also push the sale on social media to get the word out for vendors,” Mayer said. “I have some of my own products here, and we also have some members of the squad who have their own vendor contacts through the circuit. It’s small, but we like to build on it each year.”

The sale had an abundance of colorful spring plants, handmade crafts and jewelry, baked goods, hand-poured candles, collectible toys, decorative home products and more.

“We have a good variety of different vendors, and it’s been great,” Mayer said. “We had to cancel the event during the COVID-19 pandemic. Then, in the following fall, because of all the vendors that didn’t have a place to go that previous spring and the things they had made all throughout quarantine, we decided to do a fall outdoor vendor sale. We had a lot of people there of course; our whole vicinity was filled with vendors. The next year after that, it was the same thing, we had a lot of people.”

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