At 09:11 PM 3/28/2000 -0500, Mary wrote: >Neil and I have had some exchanges about holding a silent auction. He >suggested that I take charge of it. I told him that I was tentatively >willing to run it, but before I committed myself, I wanted to talk to some >people who had experience in running them. I e-mailed Janaine Banks because >NEC used to have them at the annual convention. She explained to me that >they had given up the practice because they were such a hassle. They now do >"cash and carry" auctions like they did for the dry goods. They are easy to >run. All you need is an auctioneer, runners, people to move the items >forward, and a treasurer.> I would be willing to head this committee and >line up volunteers. Neil thinks he can get FAN to donate $100 - $200 worth >of aquatic plants. So then would this auction also include lots brought in by other attendees? $200 worth of plants hardly seems worth the trouble by itself. Karen ------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, e-mail majordomo@thekrib.com with "unsubscribe aga-mcm" in the body of the message. To subscribe to the digest version, add "subscribe aga-mcm-digest" in the same message. Old messages are available at http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-mcm When asked, log in as username is "aga-mcm", and password "incorporate".