We were at a fundraiser for the Newport Corner Community Centre on Monday night. We attended a similar event at the Ardoise Community Centre a week earlier. The event is an auction/raffle type affair where you buy tickets that are numbered - 25 for $5.00 in this case - and items are arranged around the room with a container of some kind associated with each. When you find an item that you want to 'bid' on you simply place a quantity of tickets in the container. At the end of the viewing/bidding period a ticket is drawn from the container and the number called out. If you have that number you get the item. Simple.
We were completely shut-out of the Ardoise event. Not even the chocolate macaroons were meant for us that day. But Monday I was the lucky guy who drove away with the car. It's a pretty sweet ride, and looks great on the bookshelf...er...in the driveway.
Jeannette brought home what she wanted as well. The Outhouses Address Book, a $10 gift certificate to Shur Gain (a feed store here), a Dooly's Windsor license plate for the front of the Vue (Dooly's is a bar that has pool tables, etc. There are a bunch of them here), and a bag of potting soil.
Next time, I'm hoping for the 5 litres of oil and the windshield washer fluid.
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