2023 Candor Community Showcase
Look for the 2023 Candor Showcase sometime in winter 2023.
2017 Candor Showcase
2016 Showcase Offers Candor Wares by Jaime Cone 2016
Local entrepreneurs came out to show off their wares at the Seventh Annual Candor Community Showcase Saturday, March 13, 2016 offering everything from beauty products to items to spruce up your home to decadent treats you won’t find anywhere else.
Lisa Baechtle, of Spencer, had a table promoting her watercolor animal portraits. For each painting, Beachtle meets the animal and the furry friend’s family. She takes photographs, and the visits also give her a chance to get a sense of the pets’ personalities. “That’s kind of my forte,” she said. “People have told me I’m good at that.”
For the first time, new local business Kathy’s Soaps for the Outdoors had a spot in the showcase. Owner Kathy Westgate, of Candor, has been making soaps for her family for years but only recently began marketing them for retail. Her products are made with all-natural ingredients, and she only uses things that have benefits to the skin. Even her bug spray is natural, using essential oils to deter the bugs along with witch hazel, which Westgate said has the evaporating properties of alcohol but doesn’t dry out the skin.
Her best selling product is her Camouflage Hunting Soap, which she made for her husband to help disguise his scent on hunting trips. It contains activated charcoal to remove the human scent, but it also moisturizes, smells great, and is ready for serious scrubbing thanks to its long list of ingredients: olive oil, coconut oil, palm oil, fir essential oil, cedar essential oil, oakmoss absolute, Black Walnut hull powder, nettle leaf powder, burdock powder, dandelion powder, and grapefruit seed extract.
Marie Milicic and her husband, Matt, had a booth representing the Pink Zebra brand. They had an array of the company’s soy paraffin essential oils to fill your home with fragrance, and Milicic explained that all you have to do is get a little creative and you’ll have seemingly endless options. “This is Lovely Lady,” she said, holding out a pink pod and reaching for a blue one. “Combine it with Macho Man and it’s like date night!” One of her favorite concoctions is is the “fruit salad in a jar”: mango, pineapple and coconut combined.
At the Up the Creek booth, owner Tammi Seeley told passersby about her ladies’ consignment boutique in Owego. The shop features 20 local vendors, all local artisans, designers and craftsmen (and women). The shop carries gently used clothing and antiques, collectables, furniture, paintings, chocolate and jewelry from local businesses like Chocolates by Leopold, West Wind Jewelry and Lavender Fields.
Baker Bob and Baker Bruce of Horseheads had a wide variety of enticing baked goods up for sale. “I take a lot of pride in making up flavors that people haven’t tried before,” said Bob Paine. Not content to settle for ordinary chocolate chip or oatmeal, Paine has developed cookies with names like “Pink Lemonade,” “Strawberry Patch” and “Blueberry Cream Cheese.” His “Irish Heath” cookies simply combine everything he likes best (Heath Bar bits, Irish Cream flavor concentrate, and Walnuts) tossed into one delicious treat.
The creative streak must run in the family, because Bruce Paine’s “cake-tails” also stray from the conventions of traditional baking. What is a cake-tail? “It’s a cocktail in a cake,” explained Bruce Paine. “Why do the same thing over and over and hope for success?” he said.
The “car bomb” version incorporates Guinness, Tullamore D.E.W. and Bailey’s Irish Cream. The vanilla cake is filled with liquor-laced tapioca pudding, iced with white frosting and topped with two cookies (to keep the plastic wrap from sticking, Bruce Paine explained).
Impressive woodwork was on display on the booth of Skip Rosa, who has his woodworking shop in Spencer and brought some of his bowls to the show. Made with 15 types of hardwoods, some exotic but many local, the bowls are made by fitting together different sections of wood until Rosa finds a combination he’s satisfied with. “It’s an exercise in geometry,” he said. He then glues the sections together and puts them on a lathe to form them. And he’s not stopping at the small stuff; he’s currently working on a bench to go next to Nichols Pond, to be revealed this summer.
Lisa Baechtle, of Spencer, had a table promoting her watercolor animal portraits. For each painting, Beachtle meets the animal and the furry friend’s family. She takes photographs, and the visits also give her a chance to get a sense of the pets’ personalities. “That’s kind of my forte,” she said. “People have told me I’m good at that.”
For the first time, new local business Kathy’s Soaps for the Outdoors had a spot in the showcase. Owner Kathy Westgate, of Candor, has been making soaps for her family for years but only recently began marketing them for retail. Her products are made with all-natural ingredients, and she only uses things that have benefits to the skin. Even her bug spray is natural, using essential oils to deter the bugs along with witch hazel, which Westgate said has the evaporating properties of alcohol but doesn’t dry out the skin.
Her best selling product is her Camouflage Hunting Soap, which she made for her husband to help disguise his scent on hunting trips. It contains activated charcoal to remove the human scent, but it also moisturizes, smells great, and is ready for serious scrubbing thanks to its long list of ingredients: olive oil, coconut oil, palm oil, fir essential oil, cedar essential oil, oakmoss absolute, Black Walnut hull powder, nettle leaf powder, burdock powder, dandelion powder, and grapefruit seed extract.
Marie Milicic and her husband, Matt, had a booth representing the Pink Zebra brand. They had an array of the company’s soy paraffin essential oils to fill your home with fragrance, and Milicic explained that all you have to do is get a little creative and you’ll have seemingly endless options. “This is Lovely Lady,” she said, holding out a pink pod and reaching for a blue one. “Combine it with Macho Man and it’s like date night!” One of her favorite concoctions is is the “fruit salad in a jar”: mango, pineapple and coconut combined.
At the Up the Creek booth, owner Tammi Seeley told passersby about her ladies’ consignment boutique in Owego. The shop features 20 local vendors, all local artisans, designers and craftsmen (and women). The shop carries gently used clothing and antiques, collectables, furniture, paintings, chocolate and jewelry from local businesses like Chocolates by Leopold, West Wind Jewelry and Lavender Fields.
Baker Bob and Baker Bruce of Horseheads had a wide variety of enticing baked goods up for sale. “I take a lot of pride in making up flavors that people haven’t tried before,” said Bob Paine. Not content to settle for ordinary chocolate chip or oatmeal, Paine has developed cookies with names like “Pink Lemonade,” “Strawberry Patch” and “Blueberry Cream Cheese.” His “Irish Heath” cookies simply combine everything he likes best (Heath Bar bits, Irish Cream flavor concentrate, and Walnuts) tossed into one delicious treat.
The creative streak must run in the family, because Bruce Paine’s “cake-tails” also stray from the conventions of traditional baking. What is a cake-tail? “It’s a cocktail in a cake,” explained Bruce Paine. “Why do the same thing over and over and hope for success?” he said.
The “car bomb” version incorporates Guinness, Tullamore D.E.W. and Bailey’s Irish Cream. The vanilla cake is filled with liquor-laced tapioca pudding, iced with white frosting and topped with two cookies (to keep the plastic wrap from sticking, Bruce Paine explained).
Impressive woodwork was on display on the booth of Skip Rosa, who has his woodworking shop in Spencer and brought some of his bowls to the show. Made with 15 types of hardwoods, some exotic but many local, the bowls are made by fitting together different sections of wood until Rosa finds a combination he’s satisfied with. “It’s an exercise in geometry,” he said. He then glues the sections together and puts them on a lathe to form them. And he’s not stopping at the small stuff; he’s currently working on a bench to go next to Nichols Pond, to be revealed this summer.