Extension Communications
3614 Administrative Services Building
Ames, Iowa 50011-3614
(515) 294-9915
7/9/03
Contact:
Albert Grunenwald, Iowa 4-H Foundation, (515) 294-4780, abgrunen@iastate.edu
Carol Ouverson, Continuing Education and Communication services, (515)
294-9640, couverso@iastate.edu
Sport Packages Featured in 4-H Auction
AMES, Iowa - One lucky bidder and nine other friends will enjoy an Iowa Cubs game from a luxury skybox with complimentary food and beverage service. Another bid winner will get away to St. Louis for a Cardinals game and dinner at KC Masterpiece. These are just two of the 23 entertainment and sport packages up for bid at the seventh annual 4-H benefit auction July 21 at the Wakonda Club in Des Moines.
The auction features a range of items from a complimentary room at the Butler House B&B in Des Moines to a seven-day golf vacation package at Marriott's Manor Club at Ford's Colony in Williamsburg, Va.
Thirteen area golf packages will be on the auction block. Participating courses include Amana Colonies; Bos Landen, Pella; Briarwood, Ankeny; Brooks, Okoboji; Coldwater, Ames; Geneva Golf and Country Club, Muscatine; Hunter's Ridge, Marion; The Legacy, Norwalk; Spencer Golf and Country Club; Timber Line, Peosta; TPC at Deere Run, Silvis, Ill.; Veenker, Ames; and Wakonda, Des Moines. All golf packages include green fees and carts for four players.
Proceeds from the 4-H auction benefit the 125,000 Iowa youths served by the program. Bidders need not be present. Bids will be accepted by phone until noon July 21. The 4-H auction is held in conjunction with the "Going for the Green" golf tournament at Wakonda. For more information about the tournament or to place a bid on an auction item call the Iowa 4-H Foundation at (515) 294-1537 or visit their Web site at http://www.iowa4hfoundation.org.
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