New Life Church Market Features Local Area Vendors

Vendors from Fair Oaks and other communities across the greater Sacramento area gathered at  to show off many of thier homemade goods as well as offer services from respective local businesses. 

Vendors took advantage of the opportunity to market their businesses and make few extra dollars on the side while others represented the church in the hopes of raising funds.

For Marnice Wright, her daugther Melinda Tucker and the rest of the family it was an opportunity to raise money with homemade peanut brittle, other sweets and various nicknacks to raise money for a family trip to Ghana, Africa to help in the construction of a new public school for impoverished children. The local school in theory would benefit more than 100 children in the area, Wright said. The ladies have raised more than $8,000 of the $13,000 needed to transport the entire family to Africa.

Fair Oaks businessman, Jeremy Turner was out representing his business, Green Technics, Home Energy Inspections. Turner works with SMUD in an effort to introduce green energy to the community as well as outlying areas. Turner and his company offer residents home energy ratings and diagnostic testing for new solar homes and Energy Star certified ratings among other services.

Other local business owners like Jonathan T. Barker of JTB Ceramics had a wide selection of bowls, mugs, sculptures and other trinkets available for purchase.

Sherry Ramos of Lucky Wear crafts hand made doggie jackets out of various materials with cool patterns ranging from NBA teams to camouflage for the adventurous pooch. The idea came to Ramos when her Labrador-mix, Lucky, began losing weight after she was diagnosed with cancer. The dog would get cold leading Sherry to the moment of inspiration.

Ed and Julie Williams of Ag Natural Photography have chronicled many a close encounter with some of Mother Nature's wildest beasts and had the pictures on display to prove it. The couple had everything from grizzly bears to mountain goats and bald eagles caught in action preserved in a variety of pictured sizes.