A round of a-paws!
10th Annual Silent Auction “Fun”-Raiser

Sunday, November 22, 2009 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Dodger Bowl Lanes, Dodgeville WI

The 10th annual Silent Auction was a huge success. With everyone’s support, we raised about $5500! Although we had 25-30 fewer people attending the auction, everyone was very generous. The pancake breakfast raised over $400 and was a huge help too!

Please let us know if you have any feedback. We did hold the auction two weeks later than normal this year, and we are considering the best date for next year. We appreciate your input. e-mail: auction@ichs.net

Other fun facts:

• Approximately 115 baskets were available for bidding this year
• The most bids on a basket was 25 (Refreshments metal basket with Capital Brewery beer, three flavors of Cherith Valley Gardens barbeque sauce, Cherith Valley Gardens salsa, chips, and Longaberger woodcrafts cutting board). This was our highest number of bids ever!
• Ten other baskets had 10 or more bids. People were really getting into the bidding, which was a lot of fun!
• 50 people participated in the online bidding. This was a great result and we are looking forward to doing it again next year!

Thank you to all the individuals, businesses, and dedicated volunteers for making the 2009 Silent Auction fundraiser a success. Special thanks to:

• Dodger Bowl & Banquet Hall for donating the space
• First Weber Group for sponsoring the pancake breakfast
• Murphy Desmond Lawyers for being financial sponsors of the event
• Thrivent Financial for supplemental funding for the event
• Scott Stieber and friends for the beautiful music
• Quality Bakery for the cookies
• Chuck at Sirius Sunlight for the website and basket display
• Dick’s Piggly Wiggly at Springate Mall and Potterton Rule for space to display samples of our baskets
• D99.3, Channel 15, the Chronicle / Ad-Visor, and many others for advertising support
• Dodgeville Area Woman’s Club for volunteering
• Our auction committee and all of the other wonderful volunteers
• All donators of the wonderful basket items

… and anyone else we may have missed! We appreciate your continued generosity and support. We could never accomplish this without each and every one of you. Hopefully you know how much we appreciate your support. If the shelter residents could speak, each of them (all 40 dogs and 120 cats) would agree!

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