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Wb affair with Kropp’s husband, Jack calling
the shots over a cell phone and her three
daughters surrounding her at the auction.
“My middle daughter was on the phone
with him while I was bidding, so every time
the bid went up, she’d ask Daddy what
should we do,” said Sylvia Kropp. “So it
was really Jack's. He just couldn't wait to
get home and see it.”
Local artist Sue Hand has been donating
®:e paintings to the auction for over 20
years and has been creating a painting of
the auction on location at the library
grounds for 12. Hand's creation this year,
titled, “America, God Shed His Grace On
Thee,” was inspired by September 11 and
the Fourth of July holiday and was dedi-
cated to her daughter and son-in-law,
Heather and Tim Madeira.
“My daughter and her family sent out
Fourth of July invitations with a flag on the
front,” Hand wrote on a card she included
@ with the painting. “I pinned it to my studio
bulletin board. One day when I looked at it,
I suddenly saw the entire composition in
my mind's eye. An ‘aha!’ moment. It
seemed very appropriate both for Septem-
ber 11 and because this year’s auction be-
gan on the Fourth of July.”
Kropp said she placed the card next to
the painting over the fireplace for anyone
at her home to read as they gaze at her
newest prize.
This is the first time Hand has done an
acrylic painting. She started on it the first
day of the auction and probably slept very
little the next four days. “Every single per-
son depicted in the painting represents
someone who attended the auction on
Thursday, Friday or Saturday evening,”
Hand said. She thanked all the members of
the audience Sunday night for being such
gracious models.
There are other treats in the painting
too. Ice hockey mascots for example. “We
are avid Penguin fans and to have Tux in
the painting was just a bonus,” said Kropp.
“It was such a little treat.”
Words failed them when Kropp’s family
stepped back to see their prized possession
as it hung above their fireplace.
“We just stood there,” said Kropp. “It
was really a daunting moment. There was
something about it just then. We went
‘Wow!’ It was like ‘ Wow.”
“I said to my husband that night after
the kids had gone to bed, ‘You know they
are going to remember sitting there and
bidding on that for the rest of their lives.
That was a really neat thing that happened
to them. They will always remember it.”
ice cream.
her mom, Catelyn.
* 56th Library Auction
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They slaved over hot stoves for four days. Some members of the Dallas Rotary Club who organized and staffed the
food booth, from left: Randy Loyd, John Pomrinke, Eric Martin, Karen Martin, Jason Moran, Julie Pershing, Arch
Mohr.
Right, Jennifer Ochman looked over items in the Nearly Old tent.
Above, Lauri Smith, Jen Wozniak and Melonie Sappe served up delicious Hillside Farms
Left, it was the first July 4th, and the first auction, for Chrissy Butler, who attended with
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