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District #299 Foundation Fun Night and Auction is Saturday |
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By Charlie Warner
Argus News Editor
With all of the budget cuts that area schools have been forced to make due to declining enrollments and changes in state funding, it has become more than a little challenging trying to provide a well-rounded education for our citizens of tomorrow.
A Caledonia-area organization puts in countless hours with various fund-raising efforts to serve as a “safety net,” which helps the local school district maintain this excellent standard of education.
The District #299 Foundation helps purchase educational materials, provides funds necessary for field trips, and classroom equipment, which otherwise our local students would probably have to go without. The Foundation also gives out eight to 10 scholarships to graduating seniors each year.
One of the largest money-makers of the year is the annual Foundation Fun Night and Auction, which will be held this Saturday, Apr. 12 at the Four Seasons Community Center in Caledonia. Foundation board members have spent the past months recruiting and encouraging area businesses and individuals to donate some very impressive items to be auctioned off during the event.
The evening begins with a social hour, cash bar, hors d’ oeuvres, and a silent auction at 5:30 p.m. A catered dinner, featuring two entrees will begin at 6:30 and the live auction will follow at 8. The cost of the evening is $20 per person.
Some of the items that will be auctioned off include:
•Dessert a month
•Hand made quilt
•Four hours of skid loader work
•Digital weather clock
•Paddle boat cruise & cabin party
•Brett Favre U.S. Postal print
•Minnesota Twins tickets
•Tony Oliva autographed baseball
•Minnesota Vikings tickets
•Dessert for eight at Betsy’s B&B
•USANA health baskets
•La Crosse Logger tickets
•Eight hours of carpentry work
•Hope chest
•One-half hog and processing
•Overnight stay at St. James Hotel
•Case IH pedal tractor
•Truckload of bark
•One week daily specials at the Redwood Cafe
•Weekend or two nights at Riverwest condo
•A kayak
•Six cheesecakes
•Women’s pampering basket
•Three yards of Ready Mix concrete
•Six apple pies
•One week at Naples, Florida condo
•Handmade Afghan
•One week bow hunting on Balentine Properties
•Lia Sophia jewelry
•Original ink and pen drawing of early Caledonia High School
•Beauty basket
•Thyme Out with Angela dinner for four
There’s still time to donate items for both the silent or live auctions. Persons are asked to contact one of the following Foundation directors to make donations or to purchase tickets. Foundation directors are: Don Robley, Bob Klug, Deb Wray, Brad Harguth, Jean Meyer, Steve Selness, Nancy Runningen, Laurel Rusert, Jackie Vick, Michelle Werner, and Peggy Perry.
You can contact Charlie Warner at
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