A week's worth of auction items anyone can bid on to support education in Belmont.
Whether you have a sold-out ticket to the big annual Foundation for Belmont Education "Big Birthday Bash" fundraiser on Saturday, March 16, you can still help the foundation's work supporting Belmont's six public schools by bidding on a slew of outstanding live auction items online. For the next week, each day Belmont Patch will highlight one of the items up for bid. You can view all the items here and what the bid instructions are here. And today's auction items are ... España Paellapalooza III; Dinner for 12 Let Chenery parents Barb & Constantine Chinoporos and Ginny & John d’Arbeloff prepare an authentic meal from the coastline of southern Spain for up to a dozen people in the comfort of your own home. All you have to do is invite …
Annual spring auction clears $50,000 for technology, education grants at town schools.
"Fivefivefivefivefivefive?" yelled Neal Faye, a big gregarious Belmont Lions Club member who does not need a microphone to be heard. "Six! Sixsixsixsixsix?" Faye counted out, who for the fourth year has taken onto himself the role of encourager, enabler and enthusiastic auctioneer at the 13th annual Foundation for Belmont Education spring fundraiser and auction. Up goes the program book from across the room. "Six! Yah! $3,600! You," said Faye – who appropriately enough was wearing a tie with dollar bills as a design – before going back to the previous bidder and pointing, "Sevensevenseven?" The 400 guests who attended the sold-out event in the athletic complex at the Belmont Hill School were not disappointed with the gala – a dinner from…
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And those on the outside looking in can still get in on the action with a proxy bid.
Would you like to see the Red Sox take on the Yankees July 8? How about getting behind the steering wheel of a Porsche 911 Cabriolet to travel to your own romantic two-night stay at the Wequassett Resort and Golf Club on Cape Cod? You want to stay right here in Belmont? You can host a fully-catered dinner for 15 in your home! Or put together a group of 10 and enjoy a dinner at the chef's table at il Casale. Is someone in your family a big Fenway fan? Watch a game from your four loge seats and then spend an inning behind the Green Monster, watching the old style, manually-operated scoreboard in action. Or maybe you are Bruins Fans. Imagine six of you going to the game and one of you gets to ride atop the official Bruins Zamboni during …
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Matt Sullivan
10:18 pm on Thursday, March 22, 2012
The FBE dinner was a great event. The committee did a great job and Neal Fay did an awesome job as the auctioneer. I was glad to play a part in helping raise money for the Belmont Public Schools. more ›