With less than three weeks to go to the auction organized by the Knick Knack Nook and The Snug Cove House Society, the Bowen Island community is enthusiastically embracing the event with a flurry of offers of help and donations of time and expertise.
Volunteers from the Knick Knack Nook are busy ironing and washing linens; others are polishing copper and silverware. Savvy media professionals have stepped up to the plate to design a website for on-line bidding and an eye catching poster. Place your bids on-line by going to www.snugcovehouse.com and follow the links.
Restorers have been at work on donated furniture and an antique mantle clock. Two handmade quilts from 1900 have been refurbished by a volunteer whose skill with the needle has to be seen to be believed. Many of our donations of pictures and paintings have been lovingly and professionally cleaned, rematted and reframed by a volunteer couple. Island businesses have jumped on board with donations of wine, flowers, plants, coffee, meat and pens. (with 200 silent auction sheets to fill in we need pens).
The auction will be held at the Legion Hall, on Saturday, October 20, at 7 p.m. We are particularly grateful to musicians Teun Shut, John Stiver and Dorothy Geisler, who have donated their time and talents to entertain us on the night of the auction; and to the Legion which has donated its facilities for our use for much of the week prior; and to the Undercurrent which has gone out of its way to promote the event and remind us that this is a fundraiser for Snug Cove House - the supportive seniors' housing - which urgently needs funds to get off the ground.
Last but not least there are the 200 odd - largely anonymous donations - from islanders without which this fundraiser could not have been contemplated.
