Alternate health care fair set for Saturday in Cape

A happy, fun, uplifting and educational experience is how volunteer Robin Fisher describes the sixth annual Mother Earth Wholistic Fair, which will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at VFW Post 3838 in Cape Girardeau.

As a second-year volunteer with the event, Fisher said the fair is an opportunity for people to reach out to others.

"It's about personal empowerment," she said. "Learn something about yourself or how to help someone."

The event will have 34 vendors performing services and showcasing products from local and regional businesses. Specialty products offered at the fair will include renewable power information, plants, flowers, supplements, juices, vitamins, handcrafted soaps, natural skin care products, body scrubs, goat milk soaps, herbal salves, aromatherapy oils, cleaners and distinctive handcrafted items.

Representatives, for varying fees, will provide services such as massage, reflexology, ion cleansing, health and wellness coaching, nutritional consulting, yoga and hypnotherapy all offered.

Margaret Wells, an original organizer of the fair and Blue Heron Reflexology healing vendor, has served as a reflexologist vendor at the fair all six years. She spent the first two years working with feet but switched to hands because the same benefits can be derived.

"People seem to like the hands," she said. "They seem to enjoy it. I know I love having mine worked on."

Fisher said people who plan to attend the fair should expect a different kind of experience from which they can grow and learn.

"Go for the fact that maybe you'll learn something," she said.

Admission is free, but donations such as small water bottles or juice boxes, individual snack items, crayons and coloring books will be accepted on behalf of this year's charity, Beacon Health Center, formerly called the Southeast Missouri Network Against Sexual Violence.

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