WOW! Dazzling night for Mujeres

Last night was our sixth annual Día de Muertos event....our most important event of the year.
Despite stiff competition from other popular local events, we served 103 dinners and held our most successful auction yet. Board member Molly cooked and coordinated an excellent vegetarian Mexican dinner.

(At right is Eric Rust, volunteer server and auctioneer)

The silent auction contained 82 items. Our live auction consisted of 6 very special items that were auctioned off and without doubt showcased our supporters' generosity.

(At right are the condiments for the tortilla soup on trays crafted by Dave LeRoux)

An event such as this cannot take place without wonderful volunteers.

Thank you very much to:

Nash's Organic Farm Sunny Farms and QFC for table decorations Raven's Brew Brewing Company for the Deadman's Reach Coffee

(At right, simmering tortilla soup)

Auction Contributors:

Sequim Lavender Farmers Assoc., Robert Converse, Martha Lumia, Eric Rust, Sharle Osborne, Tom Huntington, Pheryl Montroy, Cathy Van Ruhan, Glenna Campbell

Publicity:

Diane Urbani de la Paz and the Peninsula Daily News
The Sequim Gazette
Sequim This Week
Karen Hanan and her weekly Art Beat program at KONP
Mark Harvey and his weekly Helpline program at KONP

Music:

Ron Munro and Steve Gilchrist

Auctioneer:

Eric Rust

Set-up, Servers, Clean-up Volunteers:

David Fox, Bob Pasco, Dave LeRoux, Bharti Desai, Kathy Strozyk, Beth Fetrow, Eric Rust, Alan Morris, Cathy Van Ruhan, Steve Gilchrist, John Boetsch, Marilyn Gilchrist,Pat Gritman, Rhonda Carls, Suzanne Fleming, Susanne McCoy, Gail Mabbut, Barbara Brooner, Nancy Shaw, Pam Erickson, Linda Crowley, Ann Tjemsland, Leslie Campbell, Karen Hanan, Barbara Wieseman and Carrie Rodland.

Deborah Carlson, President of Soroptimist International of Sequim, presented us with a $500 check. We are grateful to partner with and be supported by this wonderful organization.

Although we had fewer participants, we still were at least $1000 over last year's event. Our gross take this year was just a bit over $7500!!! This is almost one-third of our current year's budget!

Thank you all again for your loyal support. This is a huge boost to programs, projects and scholarships.

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