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PARIS — Hand-carved wood decor, jewelry and knitted baby clothes were among the wares that filled Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School on Saturday.

The annual DECA holiday craft fair, a benefiting for the school’s chapter of the International Association of Marketing Students, marked 41 years of budding entrepreneurship.

The tables of independent businesses and crafters selling soap, honey products and holiday items filled the entire school, hallway to hallway and throughout the gymnasium. 

According to Wendy Robichaud, one of the staff organizers, some of the handmade wreath tables sell out in the first hour every year.

“Every year it’s shoulder to shoulder inside until about 11 a.m., then it starts to slow down,” Robichaud said.

Over 3,000 guests and 150 crafters took part this year, ringing in a hefty collection for the DECA students. All of the money raised from the $1 entry fee — over $3,000 this year — will go to support the club’s trip to the DECA state conference. 

Additional raffles were available inside the fair for other funds such as Project Graduation and a service trip to Bali. 

The Oxford Hills DECA club consists of 32 students involved in marketing, hospitality, finance and entrepreneurship. 

The entire fair is planned and run by the students in the club. Three students in particular — Elise Dekutoski, Erin Cleary and Heather Swain — spent 4½ hours every other day from August to November organizing the craft fair, Robichaud said.

“They’re in control,” she said. “It’s a good fundraiser, but also a great opportunity to learn. They do all the work.”

Robichaud said they have a lot of volunteers every year, which is what makes the fair possible. Parents and students help with doors, raffle ticket tables, money and food.

“My entire family is here helping; that’s just the way it works out,” Robichaud said. “It’s a huge amount of work, but we have a huge reward.” 

It’s an established event and an amazing fundraiser, Robichaud said. This was her ninth year helping to oversee the event.

“It’s good for this community,”she said. “But it’s way beyond the community.” She said that there’s a man from Connecticut who visits and buys crafts every year at the fair. 

As for how to get a crafter table at the fair, individuals interested must submit an application on the event’s website, decacraftfair.weebly.com, and that puts them on the list. Previous participants are accepted first, and then the rest of the empty spots go one by one based on each application.

“We have great crafters with great products,” Robichaud said. People come from all over New England to participate in the fair.