NORWAY – The Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School will hold a craft fair Saturday, July 28, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the school. Anyone wishing to rent a table may contact Marion Culbert at 743-9832.

The fair is the main annual fundraiser for the East Otisfield Free Baptist Church’s Scholarship Fund.

Nagarani recently returned from a six month study in India and was a 1996 scholarship recipient. She received it while attending the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor.

The scholarship was started about 15 years ago by Marion Culbert, who created a counted cross stitch pattern over bricks at the time and sold them for $5 a brick. The late Gertrude DeCoteau, minister of the East Otisfield church for 23 years, was a also a solid supporter of the initiative as well.

Both Nagarani and her mother, Elaine Doble-Verrill, came up with the idea for a new way to donate to the scholarship fund: Perennials or plants for pupils. The idea is that many church members are gardeners; so why not dig up some perennials, herbs, or annuals and offer them in exchange for a donation to the fund. To add further value, why not ask the elders to share their knowledge of plants with the young people who could do the digging. The idea is being nurtured by Deaconess Maryanne Hill, who will soon take the idea to the Education Committee.