1 Sunday, July 18, 2010 THE DALLAS POST PAGE 5 Always among the first bargain hunters, Paul Zablotney and Lee Eckert, both from Dallas, carry out their finds. 2: : Cai | = Barbara Gelb, left, of Wyoming, and Judy Hudzik, of Hunlock Creek, enjoy their very first library auction. John Bunney, Mary Baker and Barbara Roberts sing on opening night of the auction. Great weather aids 64th auction CHARLOTTE BARTIZEK PHOTOS/ FOR THE DALLAS POST Ernie Ashbridge’s watch says it's time for co-chairpersons Nadine Young, left, and Karen Shuster to ring the bell to start the 64th Annual Back Mountain Memorial Library Auction. - purchased Sue Hand's 20th annual painting of the auction for $4,000. With Messersmith are Joe and Sue Hand. Mark Sokolski, of Ashley, checks out record albums in the Odds and Ends booth. - rial Library Auction. Katie Cohen, Sue Hand and Tammy Hoyt paint the scene at the 64th Annual Back Mo Mother Nature cooperates; thousands coverge on Back Mountain in support of annual event. orking in the best weather conditions in a long time, volunteers at the Back Mountain Memorial Library Auction donated a whole lot of time and even more sweat to make the 64th annual event the success it was. From the Dallas Rotary Food Booth to the Plant Booth to the Odds and Ends Booth to the Book Booth, volunteers were busy during the four-day event that provides 40 percent of the library’s annual operating budget. This year’s auction was especially necessary in light of the newly-signed state budget that calls for deep cuts into library funding. Of the more than 1,000 items that crossed the auction block, perhaps the most unusual was a pair of stuffed jacke- lope heads. Shelves were tightly stuffed with thousands of hardcovers and paperbacks in the “Slightly Read Book Shop” in the library’s basement and, from 8 to 9 p.m. on Sunday, book- worms could stuff as many books from a selected assortment into a grocery bag for $5. The Odds and Ends Booth saw bargain hunters making out like bandits while paying just $2 for everything they could fit into paper grocery bags on the last night of the auction. Lucy Fleming Messersmith, of Machell Avenue, Dallas, is now the proud owner of artist Sue Hand’s 20th auction painting, thanks to a successful bid of $4,000. Hand has been painting the auction scene for 20 years. Her paintings are always the last item to go across the auction NJ Ef{OLRIIOL IBIIOIISIVL A919 QMIeIUVL eWOUKY9 block on Sunday night. AA JIOTIBQ-E0ARILYY ZhW Olle SUV eld In Wii ad ea untain Memo- The bell signals the auction is in its 64th year. Dallas Rotarian Joe Stager carefully works the food booth manned every year by the clu b.
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