PARIS – The annual business showcase Saturday provided more than 100 local businesses and organizations a chance to advertise their wares.

Held inside Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School, the show was just the ticket for Tony and Sara Hughes of Salem Stoneworks in Livermore.

Their business offers a wide range of custom products made of natural stone, from kitchen countertops and vanity tops to jacuzzi and fireplace surrounds.

“This is our first time here,” Tony Hughes said. “I think it’s been very helpful for us.”

Sara Hughes added, “We’ve had a lot of networking luck with the other businesses and we seem to keep finding people who want to have their kitchens done.”

Despite competing with 75-degree weather, the showcase attracted a fairly steady crowd of people of all ages.

“The crowd was pretty good,” Deb Ladner of Hillside Cottages in Norway said.

Others, like Dawn Ginn of Norway and the Moss Brook Community Church, thought the turnout was low.

“The crowd’s been a little sparse, but that’s good because I can spend the time to talk with the people,” Ginn said of their debut showcase participation.

The church, which holds Sunday morning services inside the high school, offers yard cleanups for senior citizens, winterization, minor problem-solving, emergency food and prayer, among other things.

“For a couple of people (today), we could help right off the bat, so it’s a good experience for us,” Ginn said. “We care and we’re here to help.

Businesses brought and displayed kayaks, skis, Arctic Cat all-terrain vehicles, Yamaha motorcycles, Maine tourmaline and jewelry, pet-care products, tuxedos, sauces, and bed-and-breakfast stays, among other goods and services.

The Oxford Hills Rotary Club offered a demonstration of its ropes course, which let the athletically inclined display derring-do while climbing thin rope and wooden ladders to a balance beam suspended below the gym ceiling.

“We’re doing this to get the word out” about the course, said belayer Joelle Corey of South Paris. “It’s great for scouts and youth groups, not that it’s for kids only, though.”

Liesha Petrovich of Norway was pitching her son Alex’s organization, the Ganderia Middle School of Oxford, and her and her husband Martin’s business – Maine Kyokushin Karate of Norway.

A regular at the show, Liesha Petrovich thought attendance was lower than usual, but credited the Oxford Hills Chamber of Commerce for holding the event.

“They put a lot of work into the showcase and made it more affordable for businesses,” she said.

Two-year-old Darin Trundy of Hebron liked the Arctic Cat display by Colby’s Inc. of South Paris, said his grandmother, Gail Trundy.

“They had a big TV screen showing ATVs and he stood right there and pointed at them until they gave him an ATV calendar,” Gail Trundy said. “We couldn’t get him away from it.”

She said she and her husband, James Trundy, enjoyed the opportunity to see what Western Maine businesses had to offer.

“I think it’s great,” she said. “I think this is better than last year.”