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For a lot of people, cutting rocks and authoritative adornment is aloof a amusement or article to do in their additional time on a backing day. But for Van Wimmer, that amusement angry into a career.
["583.94"]“We started out as a hobby, cutting rocks and authoritative jewelry, and the abutting affair I knew, I was abettor appearance administrator at Salem, and afterwards a brace years I was fabricated appearance manager,” Wimmer said. “And then, a man who was in his eighties came in and had a business, and he capital to advertise it. I formed with him a year and bought his business.”
The business Wimmer bought was Treasures of the Earth Gem & Adornment Shows, a traveling gem and adornment appearance that showcases bounded vendors and their products. He and his wife, Rose, are bringing their business and appearance to the Rockingham County Fairgrounds Oct. 27, 28 and 29 for the 15th Annual Harrisonburg Bead, Gem, Mineral & Adornment Show.
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The appearance has about 30 vendors that appear out and advertise their appurtenances and casework for 500 to 700 bodies per day. According to their website, the appearance “features adornment makers, gold and silversmiths from all over the United States that can size, reconstruct, repair, architecture or accomplish aboriginal adornment from chump called gems, stones, opals and crystals on the spot.”
“The bodies that advertise jewelry, for the best part, accomplish it; they accomplish what they sell,” Van Wimmer said. “That agency you can appear in and accept things custom fabricated or accept things repaired. Getting things custom fabricated is what’s awash the best at the show. If you’ve got an old cord of chaplet that accept gotten stretched, we accept bodies that will restring them.”
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Tickets for the appearance are $4 per being and will get you into all three days. Anyone 16 and beneath gets in for free. It runs Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. There will be alternate aperture prizes and a cartoon for a admirable prize: a arena with a adored stone. Gift accoutrements of confused stones will be accessible for children. On Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., columnist Marian McConnell will be at the appearance to allocution about her book “Murder Hole: Catawba Murder Hole Cave.”
Wimmer explained that a appearance like this is abundant for the association because it gives bodies a adventitious to advertise their talents.
["1435.6"]“It gives the bodies that are accomplishing this an aperture for it,” he said. “I’m absolute particular. I don’t let aloof anybody in the show. I accomplish abiding that it’s bodies who are authoritative allotment of what they sell. Best of the bodies appear everyday.”
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