Rocket Man Lamps, Bald Mountain Puzzles Among Holiday Bazaar Delights
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Sarita Morgan, a Wood River Valley native, returned home from Spokane this weekend to sell her unique leatherworks at the holiday bazaar.
 
Monday, December 8, 2025
 

STORY AND PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK


The Papoose Club hung out a banner revealing its new name. And its cookie tenders doled out the club’s famous holiday cookies from new sneeze guard cookie cases this weekend as the club held its annual Holiday Bazaar at Hemingway STEAM School.


Hundreds of people entered the doors past a new banner touting “5B Kids Fund”—the club’s new moniker--sandwiched in between the traditional red Papoose Club banners.


Inside, they found plenty of familiar booths, such as Marie Stewart’s decorative hats and pants made with recycled fabric from South America and Heather Black’s landscape photographs.


 
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Rhonda Schaff and Claudia Klokke show off their new child-proof cookie display cases.
 

And they found some new items, as well. Pocatello artist Wendy Vaughn had a line of lamps in the shapes of Rocket Men and other fantastical creates that she had created out of plumbing parts. Sarita Morgan, who grew up in the Wood River Valley but now lives in Spokane, offered a line of artisan handbags and accessories sporting the crescent moon, cactus, mountains even snake designs.


Russ McAnulty, of Kimberly, had a lineup of banks he’d created out of antique 1932 post office boxes from Melba, along with wooden flour scoops and herb stripers, rocking chairs and other woodcraft.


Creative Illumination’s Lisa Crawford offered lamps made using antique sewing machines, children’s toy dump trucks, old-fashioned mixers and more. And Ketchum artist Brenda Spackman offered a line of whimsical posters depicting Sun Valley scenes that she said made great Christmas gifts.


Money raised at the bazaar will be used to fund various youth projects in the Wood River Valley.


 
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These Bald Mountain puzzles created by Anthony Anderson can also be purchased at Sturtevants, PK’s and Friedman Memorial Airport.
 
 
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Wendy Vaughn, of Pocatello, created Rocket Man lamp, a light saber lamp and other creations out of plumbing parts.
 

 
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Ketchum artist Brenda Spackman created fun little Sun Valley posters that she says are great Christmas gifts.
 
 

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