Auction To Benefit Chester County 4-H Center WEST CHESTER (Chester Co.) An auction to benefit the Chester County 4-H Center will be held on Saturday, May 21 at the Tabas Hotel in Downingtown. The event will feature “The Buck Run Bridge” lithograph, signed and numbered 12/295 by Chester County Artist Peter Scul thoipe. It will also feature hand made quilts, pillows, and wall hangings done by Chester County quitters. Other items will include Win ross trucks. Ertl trucks, signed sports memorabilia, antiques, and items such as baskets filled with Chester County treasures, hand made bluebird boxes, and bird feeders. The auction will also in clude several gift certificates from area restaurants, saddleries, mu seums, nurseries, hot air balloon rides, and white rafting trips. The doors will open at 5:30 p.m. and the auction will begin at 7 p.m. Food will be available. The Romano 4-H Center is lo cated on Route 322 in West Brandywine Township, Once completed, it will provide a home for 4-H to conduct their various small animal, horse, dairy and livestock shows and sales along with the general 4-H roundup that includes clothing and textiles, ve getables, woodworking, and learn and earn projects, to name a few. Eventually, a building that would house classrooms and meeting rooms will be established that will allow 4-H clubs to conduct meet ings and educational seminars at the site. When not in use by the 4-H clubs, it will be available for community use. The Chester County 4-H Center Inc. board of directors went to set tlement on the land in December. Fifteen acres of the property were donated by the Romano Family of West Brandywine Township and an additional five acres was pur chased with money raised by the board. Groundbreaking ceremonies will be scheduled soon. Monies raised by this auction will be put toward the building fund. Private donations are still being solicited and can be sent to Ches ter County 4-H Center Inc., do Keystone Farm Credit, AC A, P.O. Box 481, Avondale, PA 19311. Anyone interested in learning more about the 4-H Center should » i(v ?v.'.' . if Pictured are a few of the handmade items that will be auctioned off at the Chester County 4-H Center Benefit Auction on May 21 at the Tabas Hotel in Downingtown. *? ' r ? % /ip’ mi- c- ■ s4V «VvT.‘ % 5 ‘.MV 1; ♦ 4p ia ♦* -■ if o*r# -*#•* *# ♦ /* 'f . *» * '« Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 14,1994-A29 \{,> I ft I v
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