Wednesday June 8, 2011

 

 

Olde Time Country Auction

Lititz Area Mennonite School

Part 2 of 2

Friday, June 3 and Saturday, June 4

 

 

 

Our son Jere (Executive Auction Coordinator, along with his wife Kristen) opened the auction with words of welcome, and asked retiring school principal, Ken Fry, to give the invocation.

 

 

John Stauffer, Jr. Auctioneer

 

 

Singer/songwriter/musician/ukulele player/radio station manager/on air personality (Phredd) Fred NcNaughton and his son auctioned this kids tool set to advertise the Children’s Entertainment which was coming up in a few minutes.

 

 

 

 

 

When bidding got slow, one of the auctioneers picked up Fred’s son to increase the bids. It worked!

 

 

I arrived about 8:00 a.m. on Saturday morning in time for the Landscape and Plant Auction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then I spent the rest of the morning and afternoon enjoying the main auction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Going outside to get french fries.

 

 

 

 

The auction committee bought this bench (which had been signed by all LAMS students) and presented it to to Mr. Fry as a retirement gift.

 

 

I resisted much temptation, and bought only two items – one of which was this delicious pickled five bean salad made by our friends C.B. and Doris Horst. This picture makes me want to have a spoonful before I go to bed!

 

 

 

The other thing I bid on and purchased was this target buck for Cerwin to fine-tune his archery skills.

 

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I loved sitting around for the entire day – just watching people and the auction.

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