The Marion Fireworks Fundraising Gala and Auction, recently held on March 23, was a huge success! Thank you to all the people who attended as well as the many businesses and private donors who contributed to the auction!! The auction raised over $5,000!!
The afternoon activities allowed anyone to view the auction items for free and the children to participate in face painting and enjoying an ice cream sundae with ice cream and toppings donated by Kool Kone! The cake walk, a musical chairs game where the winner gets a cake, was wonderful. Many seniors and bakeries provided the cakes to be used as prizes!!
The evening Beach Themed Gala was a lot of fun! Hawaiian shirts and life guard gear could be seen throughout the crowd. Food was prepared and hosted by the students of Old Colony Culinary Department! The students prepared antipasto skewers, fruit sticks, goat-filled truffles and oodles of more culinary delights. Dessert was prepared by Artisan Bakery in Rochester. Many of the donated auction items were bid on over the dollar values! A great time was had by all.
To date, we have raised $42,000.00 toward the goal of $50,000. The bid for the fireworks is out for review and we are busy planning food truck afternoon for the July 5 event. We are so close! If you haven’t contributed and wish to see the fireworks occur on the 5th, please send in your donations to Marion Fireworks, 2 Spring Street, Marion.