2 Super Bowl tickets for auction Saturday night 26 miles south of Dallas

thenavarro

I am the Board Treasurer for the Ellis County Children's Advocacy Center, Inc. DBA The Gingerbread House, and we are having our primary fundraiser of the year next weekend, Feb. 4-6 here in Waxahachie, TX (26 miles South of Dallas). It's a chili cook-off, barn dance with prime rib dinners, and silent and live auctions. All proceeds help offset our costs and benefit the center 100%. We hope to net out about $30,000 that helps fund our annual budget. All donations are tax deductible as we are a 501(c)(3).

If anyone wants to come and have fun, or want to know more about what The Gingerbread House does, please PM or post your questions. We have a mechanical bull riding competition with preliminaries on Friday night, and the finals on Saturday night during the barn dance. If you'd like to ride in the competition, I can arrange that. Here's a couple of videos that will show you what that is like (I'm close to the end of the men's comp):

Men's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbQOMAGYBgY

Women's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQhGRJqcy0s

Also, we have some nice auction items up in our silent and live auction on Saturday. We'll have a couple round trip Southwest Airlines tix, a lot of local gift certificates, and one of the local banks is going to donate 2 SuperBowl tickets to Sunday's big game for the live auction Saturday night. (I don't know where the seats are and we won't know until that night) We also raffle off about a $3,500 riding lawn mower (lawnmowerman, come in) , and raffle tix are $10 each.

Friday night is free to watch and Saturday is free as well until the barn dance that night. We have plenty of room for chili cooks (entry fee), prime rib dinners (fee), and will also have a concession stand available. We have sponsorships available, and gladly accept donations as well.

If you are local, or will be in the DFW metroplex for the big game, and want to experience a truly unique Texas weekend, come on down and join us.



Take care,



Mike

thenavarro

We got the Super Bowl tickets in. If anyone happens to be coming to our auction, they are in Section 408 Row 21 Seats 1 and 2. Face value on the seats is $800 each. Due to the weather here, ice and snow, I don't think our fundraiser is going to go too well, so if you have any interest, you might consider attending Saturday night and picking up the tickets at what will probably be a bargain price. (unfortunately for the Center, but good for the bidder) Mother Nature doesn't seem to care that this is the fundraiser we rely on for the year.

Mike

Dialj

Good luck on exceeding the $30K for a fantastic cause. Hopefully Mother Nature will see the need.