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Please bring your items for the auction to the church as soon as possible and notify the co-chairs |
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Saturday, March 28, 2015 Auction Details
Doors open at 6pm for Games and Silent Auction and Live Auction begins at 8 pm - Refreshments throughout the evening.
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Item No. | Donor | Featured Item | Date | Qty | $ Each |
S7 |
Dick & Susan Bir |
Landscape Consultation |
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Your Yard and Garden's Bones! Say What????
Grab your clipboard and pen or tape recorder to capture the words of Dick Bir, retired horticulture faculty from NC State University, as he accompanies you around your property to: *discuss what needs pruning and how things should be pruned,*consider plants you might like to incorporate in your landscape,and determine if they are suitable for our climate,*choose the right site for appropriate plants,*learn how to propagate some of your plants, *understand what steps to take to utilize the results of your soil analysis.
Available this fall or early winter at a mutually agreed upon time. It will last about 1 1/2 hours. Important: The lucky winner of this offering will be getting advice from Dick. He will not actually be digging, pruning, or propagating. |
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300.0 |
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Important Dates
Date | Time | Event | Location |
Sun, Jan 31 | 12:00pm | Auction Planning | At church |
Sun, Feb 14 | 12:00pm | Auction Planning | At church |
Sun, Feb 28 | 12:00pm | Auction Planning | At church |
Sun, Mar 7 | 12:00pm | Auction Planning | At church |
Sun, Mar 14 | 12:00pm | Auction Planning | At church |
Fri, Mar 26 | 7:00pm | Training for Computer Volunteers | At church |
Sat, Mar 27 | 6:30pm | The big event! | At church |
Sat, Apr 3 | 6:30pm | Auction volunteer post-event thank you party | Bill's house |
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Volunteer Opportunities
Click here to email us about volunteering to help with the auction
Click here to email us about bringing a dish for the auction dinner
You can also visit the Auction table or contact Bill or Hugh to sign up to bring food or help in one of these areas:
- Phone-A-Thon group - Help spread the word and get folks thinking about what to offer this year
- Website data entry - Enter info from paper donation forms (Not everyone is so tech-savvy)
- Catalog Proofreader - Keep an eye on donated item entries - fix typos and follow up on missing dates and other essential info
- Business Donation gatherer - Teams of 2 visit local businesses and ask for items to donate - they get a mention in the catalog!
- Donate Items / Dinners - Use this website to submit your item descriptions! What could be easier!
- Donate Food for Auction night
- Assist on Food/Drink/Dessert/Coffee service teams
- Catalog prep - Help coordinate generation, printing, stapling of catalog and addendum
- Slide Show - Help prepare the PowerPoint slides we show during the live auction
- Theme Ambience / Entertainment - Slide shows, music, live entertainment...etc - Creative Opportunity!
- Bid Sheet prep - Pick paper colors, print bid sheets night before auction
- Silent auction table setup
- Post auction silent item distribution
- Record live auction bids
- "Run" live bids out to computer team for entry
- Take Tickets on auction night
- Sell Admission Tickets before the auction
- Staff the Auction table during weeks before Auction
- Come up with ideas to help decorate
- Clean up team
- Computer team - help check guests in, enter sales, and settle up
- Network team - help setup and test our old computer equipment (or persuade folks to donate some spiffy new laptops)
- Other - Can you think of some other way you'd like to help make our event better?
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