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MCC Sale (musical program: Apple Butter : Ice Cream : Fun Run : Kid's Auction and Activities : Fun and educational activities for kids AND parents! Kid's Auction, Crafts, Face Painting, Barrel Train rides, "Wheel of Fortune" and a Service Project! Help make a quilt for refugees. See Saturday's schedule for Kid's Auction details. 2007 Auction for Kids The 61 kid bidders registered at this year’s Auction for Kids in Rocky Ford raised an estimated $1,433.12 on 104 items. We welcomed first-time bidders with applause, then shared verbal instructions and a prayer. The children were asked to use two different kinds of noisemakers and were asked to use one for a few seconds when items sold for $15 or more, the other when items sold for $25 or more, and both together when items sold for $50 or more. Our auction took 75 minutes. Eldon Mast offered three opportunities for children to use the microphone. Brennan Kauffman, Adele Hofer, and Shannon McLelland did a great job selling an item each as apprentice auctioneers. Our best-selling items this year included Rockies baseball NL championship pennants and a baseball, a Jr. Broncos (Nerf) football and youth-sized ball cap. A new guitar sold for $70, a new 3-game lawn set for $67, and new kits (magic book and trick props, watercolor book, juggling) sold well for $21 to $60. Individual K’nex building sets sold well, as did gently used items for which donators had a number of working pieces in great shape (a Fischer Price farm set with figures and vehicles). We always get plenty of gently used stuffed animals, which can occasionally be hard to sell, but we grouped them by type of animal and they brought good interest, but not always higher prices. New animals sold better individually. Eight plastic recorders brought $12 each (compare $7 each last year) and two Irish whistles with instruction books brought $17 each. We sold a blue Highway hauler semi and a Tonka dump truck together for $62. We tried a 5-item silent auction table this year, which we closed 5 minutes after the live auction was done. High prices on that table were a $32 Rockies pennant (an identical live auction pennant brought $20), and a $43 i-CY penguin light-up speaker for i-pods and mp3 players. This was the first year our event was held in a tent, since the former food building was lost in last winter’s heavy snow storm. We were grateful for a clear, sunny day. We had some trouble keeping flaps down and items on our tables, but after locating a number of tent stakes in the Kanagy’s camper, we were able to hold down a few critical spots. We recommend staking tent sides in the future. Eldon Mast spent the night in his van beside the tent to discourage potential overnight issues. The wind did knock down our utility lights and blew a few items off of the tables. Our borrowed P.A. system suddenly felt big for the location, as one benefit of this location was not to have to compete with enclosed food building noises. During the auction, we had quite a few folks standing behind the rows of 65 chairs. We used nine tables and as they were emptied, the kids’ craft coordinator was able to set up some of those games and crafts. (I suspect the timing and need to share these fixtures caused a loss of revenue for those activities, but I do not know for sure.) Our team this year included Eldon Mast, auctioneer; Judy Kanagy as recorder; Eric and Margie Desch on computer records and cashiering; Claire and Fay Kanagy, Sue Gillis, and Lily Mast as display helpers; and Terry Mast, coordinator. Reported by Terry Stutzman Mast, 30 October 2007
Shannon McLelland (Sugar City, CO) gets bidding going. Adele Hofer (Greenwood Village, CO) auctions twin dolls displayed by Clair Kanagy (CS)
Brennan Kauffman (Centennial, CO) calls out bids while Lily & Eldon Mast point. Riley & Logan Stice with mom Wendy (CS, CO) watch. Quilters' Corner : Quilt related items. Books, fabric, unfinished quilt projects-and more. New from Quilter's Corner: 2007 Relief Sale Quilt Challenge Kit & Handcrafted Note Cards.
Share a Cup, Share a Cause: Since 1995 Ten Thousand Villages has marketed fairly traded coffee, pouring justice in the cups of North American shoppers. Catch up with a friend, reminisce about past Relief Sales, or just take a break over a cup of "justice" in our new coffee shop!
Ten Thousand Villages: Fair Traded Goods - Baskets carvings, jewelry, linens, nativities, and more. Ten Thousand Villages, a program of MCC, provides vital, fair income to Third world people by selling their handicrafts and telling their stories in North America. Simply in Season - recipes that celebrate the rhythm of the land; new from MCC.
Pat Bixler, chair and treasurer for La Junta Ten Thousand Villages
Deanna Hostetler preparing Ten Thousand Villages display Food: Enjoy a variety of foods on the spot and take some home as well! Amish Cheese from Ohio*, Apple Butter & Apple Cider, Barbeque Beef, Frozen German Sausage*, German Sausage Sandwiches**, Baked Goods, Ice Cream*, Kettle Corn, Navajo Fry Bread**, Pecans, Pecan Goodies, Pie-by-the-Slice, healthy snacks from the Nutrition booth* and the list goes on! *Open Friday evening **Open Saturday 10:00 a.m.
Nicolas Moseley, Amber Barrie, Centennial CO
Barbara & Floyd Hershberger (Carlsbad) selling pecan pies to Arlin Buller (Newton, KS)
Barbara Hershberger (Carlsbad, NM) Penny Power Project -- Put your change to work!
Franklin Heatwole at information booth with penny jar and check from church. It's time to begin collecting coins for the Penny Power part of Our Rocky Mountain Mennonite Relief Sale! This year, Faye Brenneman announced, the focus for the fund is providing food and water to people who do not have access to these very basic human needs! Hopefully some churches have been collecting throughout the year. Penny Power reports that in 2006, $551,646 was raised for Mennonite Central Committee's projects of peace, relief and development around the world. That is from all the sales in the U.S. and Canada. See the website www.pennypower.org for ideas for helping explain the needs, for ways of encouraging participation, and for info about the new DVD, "Rhythm of Change." Let's make it a record year for our sale's Penny Power! Frank McKenzie, our treasurer, points out that it helps to find people who will match the amount given via coins! Frank also wants to remind everyone that we want CHECKS for the amount of coins that were gathered in you congregation, not coins themselves! We'll have a container at the sale to gather contributions given by passers-by and children the day of our sale. Donations will be matched through the generosity of a Penny Power supporter. MCC Central States Resource Generation Staff with display regarding the work of MCC.
MCC Rocky Mountain Volunteers
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