PAGE FOUR
By KATHY SUDA
Staff Correspondent
What does it take to make a fund
raising event possible? Volunteers. And
‘what makes a volunteer motivated to
work hard for a cause? Someone with a
strong conviction, some free time and the
knowledge that the cause is very worthy.
That’s what makes the volunteers for
the Back Mountain Memorial Library
auction special.
Debra Dinger has been working as a
volunteer for the past five years and she
says she enjoys everything about the
auction.
This year Dinger is chairman of new
goods. In preparation, she solicits goods
to be auctioned. She begins in April or
May and contacts those who have always
given in the past and scouts new possible
donators. Dinger supervised 35 volun-
teers and enjoys working for the library
because it is community minded. It gives
her a good feeling knowing she’s doing it
for a good cause. Dinger said working of
the auction is like a fever. When asked
just how much time she expects to have
put in at the end of this year’s auction,
she replied, “A lot.”
-
are
Dallas Post/Charlot M. Denmon
Gable.
Dallas Post/Charlot M. Denmon
have planned.
»
AUCTION ’86
e
A first-time volunteer, Connie Scott of
Dallas, also said she is happy to work for
the auction knowing it’s for a good cause.
Scott is working on raffle sales for the
giveaway of the 1986 Chevy Blazer
donated by Gene Lispi Chevrolet. She
says the hardest part is learning how to
ask people for their help. Scott and four
others work going to local businesses
asking to help sell raffle tickets. She said
the community i$ very willing to help and
that their usual reply is, “Sure, we’ll do
whatever we can.”
Scott is motivated by her concern with
the importance of education and she feels
that the Back Mountain is lucky to have
the library.
Scott became interested in volunteering
through her husband’s family. She is
employed as a medical secretary and
says she’ll be back again next year.
Ernie Ashbridge, co-chairman of
Antiques this year, has been volunteering
his time for the auction for the past 25
years. All year he scours the area for
goods and this year has 575 pieces to
auction off. Ashbridge said he became a
part of the auctions because he enjoys
auctions.
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Where there are games, there are
usually children and that’s what Phyllis
and Adolph Sappe are looking forward to
at the 1986 Back Mountain Memorial
Library Auction this week.
Phyllis and Adolph of Dallas are co-
chairmen of children’s games, an event
entirely new to the auction. They realize
that not all young people are interested in
just the auction, so they have planned a
variety of exciting and challenging
games for all youth regardless of age.
There will be games for children in a
category under 12 years of age and a
second category for those 12 years and
older. There are prizes for those who win
and the cost is low enough that most
everyone can participate. Young people
will find more than 14 varieties of games
ranging in price from 3 for 10 cents to 3
or 8 for 25 cents.
Just a few of the games will be ski ball,
ring toss, tic-tac toe, throwing a ball
through a hoopt to win, spinning a wheel
and for the toddlers, a lollipop tree, fish
pond, bean bag toss and many more.
Games for the older children are natu-
rally more challenging than those forthe
“small fry.”
Phyllis and Adolph Sappe have been
residents of Dallas for years, but this is
the first year they have been in charge of
any event related to the auction. Phyllis
worked as a volunteer on occasion
because she is a member of the Dallas
Women’as Club but it is a very first time
for her husband.
Adolph, formerly the purchasing agent
for Owens-Illinois, retired in 1984, and
Phyllis, familiar to many because of the
years she was an employee of the Dallas
School District retired two years ago.
The Sappe’s accepted the co-chairman-
ship of the children’s activities because
they had the time, since they are retired
(See SAPPES, page 5)
Old-fashioned lemonade and fresh, hot
pizza — something new at the Back
Mountain Library Auction this year!
Kathy Kostrzewski, chairman of the
lemonade and pizza stand, assures auc-
tion-goers that the freshly-squeezed lem-
onade will bring back memories of
yester-years when they were children,
and children, 6 through 16 will come back
for more of the ice cold ade and the
piping hot pizza.
In keeping with Auction Chairman John
Shaskas’ belief that the annual event
needs new ideas and new, young volun-
teers, Kathy has taken on the task of
managing what she hopes to be a popular
stop on the grounds.
A resident of Dallas since 1972 when
she moved here with her family from
Kingston because of the flood, Kathy
became interested in the auction last
year because of close friends. She worked
as a volunteer where needed and sold
tickets for the Chevrolet Cavalier which
was chanced off. This past winter, she
was co-chairman of the Christmas Kick-
off Dinner.
A graduate of Dallas Senior High
School in 1983, Kathy attended King’s
College for a year and a half, then
transferred to College Misericordia
where she is majoring in elementary
educaiton and early childhood.
In her leisure time, she enjoys riding
one of her several horses. Her latest
addition is an eight-year-old thorough-
bred, Karino, with whom she is presently
working in order to show him. She also
likes sailing and usually goes on the
Chesapeake Bay in her father’s boat.
Kathy is enthusiastic about the new
lemonade and pizza stand and has
recruited a number of her college friends
to ‘assist her in the stand. The lemonade
will be fresh daily as will the pizza.
There will be two varieties of pizza,
regular cuts and French bread pizza.
(See PIZZA, page 5)
+