Crowd at Auction
The Raquette Lake Volunteer Fire Department’s annual auction was held at the Village Green on Saturday, August 13 and, according to department secretary Mitch Edelstein, it was another tremendous success.
The event, which is the organization’s biggest annual fundraising effort, raised over $13,000.
A large crowd of auction-goers gathered under and around a tent covering at Raquette Lake's Village Green
Among some of the big-ticket items auctioned were a guideboat that went for $750, a motor boat for $450, and Tony Harper’s pizzas that were gobbled up at over $40 each.
Edelstein said this year’s event started an hour earlier than past years, but despite the effort to wrap things up a littler earlier than usual, Auctioneer George Tucker’s gavel went down on the last item at 1 a.m. on Sunday.
