2022 Paint the Paper Pink

Page 14 2022 PAINT THE PAPER PINK Lincoln Daily News Oct/Nov 2022 Silent Auction and Live Auction items have been collecting in two office areas at Collision, ready to be taken out to the tables that are on loan from the Logan County Fairgrounds. The tables along with chairs were brought to Collision Concepts by employees of Illinois American Water, a service they offered as a donation to the event. After the event, the employees returned on Friday morning, loaded everything up and took it back to the fairgrounds. After the tables were set up and decorated, volunteers, most of whom were staff of Collision Concepts along with their family members, Hargis, Smith, Janice Funk and John and Becky Logan began organizing the auction areas. The employees of Collision loaded auction items onto carts and wheeled them out to the shop area. In a matter of minutes nearly 150 items were delivered to the tables. Hargis was in charge of organizing the silent auction items and Smith was responsible for the live auction items. They both had helpers including team members Janice Funk, Richard Smith and others who just want to pitch in a do what they can to make it a great night. In addition to the auction items, there were raffles that are set up on tables, surprise bags filled with items donated by local retailers, luminaria sales for remembering those who have battled cancer of any type and gone to the ultimate victory of life ever after without cancer and pain. In the front entrance, Nuthatch Hill BBQ put out BBQ Sundaes featuring their delicious pulled pork. Cindy Guyettwas in charge of the “front of the house” and took care of the set up and also provided food and drink for guests. Bill Post and TonitaReifsteck have been involved with selling luminaria for Relay for Life many years. They both spent the evening at the auction and sold a large number of luminaria before the event began. Those luminaria were lit and lined the floor along the live auction tables. Team member Nancy Cunningham and her husband Mikemanned the raffle table, and sold tickets for a pink pedal tractor donated by Central Illinois Ag with a custom paint job by Darin Schempp of Atlanta as well as last minute tickets for the Ducati battery- poweredkid’s motorcycle donated by Rent One in Lincoln. The drawing for the motorcycle took place just prior to the live auction event. CONTINUED u