Webster Event Draws 1,700; Grosses $109K
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By Gary [email protected]
The event, held Saturday night at the center, included dozens of silent and live auction items for sale, several cash drawings and a dinner and cash bar catered by Sleepy Owl Supper Club.
The cost of admission to the event included a chance on a new car donated by the Car Company or a pontoon donated by Main Channel Marina.
Approximately 1,700 tickets for the event were sold.
Dozens of local and area merchants donated hundreds of items for the auctions.
Lamar Davis was the grand prize winner and chose the pontoon.
Other winners took home a pop-up camper trailer, a 14-by-7-foot tandem axle cargo trailer, and cash amounts of $1,000, $500 and $250.
For the fourth year, Brian Wuthrich, of Hahn Auctioneers, served as auctioneer for the event.
Sherman Goldenberg, Syracuse, serves as this year’s chairman of the fundraising committee for the center. He said the money raised during the event will be used primarly for operations.
“There is very little tax support for this facility. This is your stereotypical nonprofit, that depends on very little public funding,” Goldenberg said.
This was the fourth year for the event, which has grown each year.
Last year’s event grossed $109,000. That total included donations that typically roll in ahead of the event each year.
Goldenberg said community center officials are at a loss to explain precisely why the event has become so successful.
“Things that are successful have their own buzz or their own magic or whatever you want to call it,” he said. “And this has that and we just shepherd the magic. And really, the magic, if you want to call it that, is the people. It’s a social event. We basically just facilitate it.
“Everybody has a great time and it’s nothing like any of us have ever seen before. We don’t understand why it works, just that it works,” Goldenberg said.
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The event, held Saturday night at the center, included dozens of silent and live auction items for sale, several cash drawings and a dinner and cash bar catered by Sleepy Owl Supper Club.
The cost of admission to the event included a chance on a new car donated by the Car Company or a pontoon donated by Main Channel Marina.
Approximately 1,700 tickets for the event were sold.
Dozens of local and area merchants donated hundreds of items for the auctions.
Lamar Davis was the grand prize winner and chose the pontoon.
Other winners took home a pop-up camper trailer, a 14-by-7-foot tandem axle cargo trailer, and cash amounts of $1,000, $500 and $250.
For the fourth year, Brian Wuthrich, of Hahn Auctioneers, served as auctioneer for the event.
Sherman Goldenberg, Syracuse, serves as this year’s chairman of the fundraising committee for the center. He said the money raised during the event will be used primarly for operations.
“There is very little tax support for this facility. This is your stereotypical nonprofit, that depends on very little public funding,” Goldenberg said.
This was the fourth year for the event, which has grown each year.
Last year’s event grossed $109,000. That total included donations that typically roll in ahead of the event each year.
Goldenberg said community center officials are at a loss to explain precisely why the event has become so successful.
“Things that are successful have their own buzz or their own magic or whatever you want to call it,” he said. “And this has that and we just shepherd the magic. And really, the magic, if you want to call it that, is the people. It’s a social event. We basically just facilitate it.
“Everybody has a great time and it’s nothing like any of us have ever seen before. We don’t understand why it works, just that it works,” Goldenberg said.
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