Thanks to all who helped make GPI Lions Club 5th Annual Raffle/Auction a success
To the editor
Sunday, Feb. 15, was the GPI Lions Club 5th Annual Raffle/Auction. Thanks to everyone who bought tickets and participated in the event. Raffle winners were: $100 winners, Diane Monhollan and Steve Smith; $500 winner, Pat Halvorson; $1,000 winner, Elvis Long (the last two were not present). Congratulations to the winners of the raffle prizes, and congratulations to all those who bid on the auction items and won.
We want to start out by expressing our sincere thanks to Mr. Robin A. Pearl, president of American Mariculture Inc., who provided us with fresh shrimp for our buffet. We want to also thank all of you who came forward and helped with cooking the food, distributing the food, cleaning up the kitchen and Mel Brinson and the Boy Scouts who helped at noon before the event and came back at 10 p.m. to help tear down, put away and cleaned. Thanks to all who sold the tickets, helped with decorating, and those who donated the great items for our auction.
The Greater Pine Island Lions cannot exist without the help from our community. We desperately need more members if we are to continue. I asked everyone in attendance to come and be a part of our group and help us provide eye exams, glasses and eye surgeries when needed by our residents who cannot afford to pay for these services themselves. We must help prevent blindness on our Island.
The donors for auctions were: Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre, Dominoes Pizza (SJC), Doctor Watson (wine & a bottle of vodka), Island Time (wooden wine bottle holder), Pine Island Pest Control (2 $65 certificates for service), Florida Everblades (4 tickets), Diamonds Billiards (bucket of beer, towel, 2 games of pool and more), Around the Clock Fitness (2 certificates), Carmen’s Kayaks (2 person/2 hour nature tour and Fishing Kayak all day rental for 2), Bert’s Bar ($100 certificate), Capt. Dick May’s Newest Cookbook, The Beachhouse Lodge ( 2 night stay), Cupcake Express (certificate), Danny Yates Landscaping (certificates $100 & coolies), Wild Fly Charters (1/2 day flats fishing everything included), Donkersloot Dream Docks (3 T-shirts), John Michaels Jewelry ($50 certificate), Miracle Baseball (8 box seats), Tween Waters Inn (certificate 3 day 2 night stay) Menagerie, Matlacha (hand painted all purpose large beautiful bag), Bert’s Pine Bay Gallery (hand-painted tile), Waterfront (certificate & shirt), Disney Tickets (4 tickets), Alden Pines (18 holes golf & cart for 2), SPA 33 (basket of goodies and certificate), Trader’s Hitching Post ($20 certificate), Old Pine Island Marina (Eagle Claw Rod & Reel), R&D Marina (bait bucket), Crab Co. (2 shirts); Center Bait & Tackle (400 live shrimp), Marlins Autographed Baseball (Adeiny Heckavarria), Tropical Hair Gallery (certificate), Lazy Flamingo (pitcher of beer per month for 1 year), St. James Island SPA (basket salts, soaps, candle & certificate for massage), Basket Dinner or Lunch once a week including dessert (Blue Dog Bar & Grill, Froggys, Island Grill, Little Lilly’s Deli, Dairy Queen & WD certificate $50), Greenwell’s Bat & Ball & Family Fun (certificate), Captain Con’s (2 rib eye steak dinners), Key West Express (1 round trip), Naples Phil Harmonic (2 tickets), Pampered Pup (basket of puppy goodies), Center of Attention SPA (certificate & lunch Bag), Sunshine Jewelers & Gold Exchange (certificate $50), Four Winds Marina (bag with shirt, fish cleaning knife, shirt, lanyard, Cap & Red Fish Decal), Mel Meo (eat more fish shirt), Monroe Canal (t-shirt), Chuck’s Auto Repair (certificates 2 $35), Painted Conch “It’s an Artsy Party (certificate 2 sessions & painting), Sandy Hook (certificate $25), Cabot Cheese (New England $25 value), Pine Island Auto (cert), Waterfront (certificate & shirt), St. James Automotive (certificate $38), Low Key Tiki (certificate $20), Cultural Park Theatre Co. (2 tickets for any Broadway Series Show), Banana Bay Tour Co. (Dolphin Cruise for 2), Pine Island Hair Salon (certificate for hair cut), Frills (shell necklace), Red’s ($50 certificate), Mango Tango Tropicals (bougainvillea-2, Dragon Wing Bagonia, Chinese Fan Palm, Pygmy Date Palm, Bromilead or Match Stick). If I missed anyone, I apologize.
The 6th Annual Greater Pine Island Lions Club Raffle/Auction 2016 will be held at the St. James Civic Center (if we can book it) on Feb. 21 at 6-10 p.m. Tickets will remain at $50 for the full buffet and it will be a BYOB event. Coffee will be served with the meal and ice is available. We welcome suggestions to make our event even better.
Come to a meeting and check us out. We meet the fourth Monday of the Month, October through April, 7 p.m., at the Lutheran Church,10360 Stringfellow Road, St. James City.
Our next meeting is Feb. 23 and we will be having a pizza party. If you want to join us, just call the number below and let me know so we will have enough pizza.
Mary M. Von Burg
President GPI Lions Club