Sampling local wines, listening to live music and enjoying a
buffet dinner isn’t a bad way to spend a night, especially when you
can help a school at the same time.
The Aromas Home and School Club, which is a parent teacher group
at Aromas school, is hosting its first A-bay Auction Saturday
evening at the San Juan Oaks Golf Club in Hollister to raise money
for Aromas School.
Hollister – Sampling local wines, listening to live music and enjoying a buffet dinner isn’t a bad way to spend a night, especially when you can help a school at the same time.
The Aromas Home and School Club, which is a parent teacher group at Aromas school, is hosting its first A-bay Auction Saturday evening at the San Juan Oaks Golf Club in Hollister to raise money for Aromas School.
“We hope to increase awareness of the Home and School Club, fund existing programs and create a springboard for events in the future to help our kids,” said Mark Boos, spokesperson for the club.
In addition to the wine, music and food, the event will include both silent and live auctions.
During the auctions, attendees will have the chance to bid on a flight for two over Monterey Bay in a Cessna 180 single-propeller plane, gift baskets made by Aromas students and a quilt made by students.
The baskets up for auction were put together by students and their parents and contain items unique to a certain region in the world. There is an English basket, a Japanese basket and a Scottish basket – which is filled with fudge, toffee and a bottle of single malt whiskey – to name just a few.
“We wanted each basket to reflect the taste and flavor of a region,” Boos said.
As for the whiskey in the Scottish basket, it was supplied by a parent and was never touched by student hands.
“It’s an adult event,” Boos said. “Kids didn’t bring bottles of whiskey to school.”
The Home and School Club hopes to raise at least $8,000 through the event. And it is well on its way to that goal, having already sold 150 tickets at $40 each.
Part of the money raised will go toward running the the school’s Junior Achievement program, which brings in people to teach students about economics and business.
The club also hopes to use some of the money to buy balls and other equipment for the school’s new gym.
“It gives us the ability to outfit the gym with all kinds of neat stuff,” Boos said.
Wine tasting will begin at 5pm, and the event will end at 11pm. For tickets and information call Mark Boos at (831) 772-6844.
Luke Roney covers education and agriculture for the Free Lance. Reach him at 831-637-5566 ext. 335 or at [email protected]
