125 Live holds Holiday Gift Fair to highlight local artists | News [Video]

ROCHESTER, Minn.- 40 vendors and over 1,000 shoppers came out to participate in 125 Live’s annual Holiday Gift Fair on Thursday, Dec. 12.

Jennifer Schoenfelder, program coordinator at 125 Live, says the tradition has been going every year for the past 9 years with only one exception.

The fitness center holds the event to spotlight the artistic side of its staff, members and other local artists in the Rochester community, who have a lot of handcrafted holiday gifts to sell.

Businesses like Eclectic Oddities came to the event with specialty ornaments and homemade stickers.

The owner, Dana Ridlon, says it was her first time tabling an event like this.

“My aunt’s a member of 125 Live and she told me about it. I asked at the beginning of this year, maybe I should do it? And …