Very generous of you Stan! You should be proud. Regards, Bob S. On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Stan Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > We had a fund-raising dinner and auction this evening; the occasion was our > church's return visit to Costa Rica in late May - early June. A high > proportion of youth on the trip, so additional fundraising needed to help > cover all of the costs ( not because they are more expensive, but because > they are not gainfully employed, just in case anyone was wondering.) Sixty or > so people in attendance. > > I had printed, matted, and framed four of my shots, they were in the silent > auction portion. Several bidders on each, the final average price was way too > low but still higher than my direct expenses of printing-matting-framing. And > then I sold a second copy of two of the shots to people frustrated by having > missed out in the first round. So, I helped in the fundraising, got lots of > good strokes on the prints, but am not ready to give up my day job. We also > donated a week at a time-share resort (exchangeable at many resorts around > the world) and a dinner-for-six at our home, and those both went for big > bucks. A good evening all in all. > > stan > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. >
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