What a Great Evening!

The 2012 Ely Rotary Auction is history -- and what a great evening it was!  Nearly 100 bidders opened their wallets to purchase the fantastic array of goods and services supplied by local businesses and individuals as they enjoyed a social evening at Amici's Event Center.  Proceeds from this auction will support community groups and activities over the next year.  To see what Ely Rotary has done with auction funds in the past, click HERE.

Auction Details

We're Ready To Roll!
If you are calling in a bid, please call early -- there is a delay between the actual bidding and the online broadcast.  If you did online registration, remember to use your bidder number when you call!
++EXPRESS REGISTRATION FORM - use the link to print out a form.  Please follow the printing directions on the screen. Fill out the form and bring it to Amici's Wednesday after 3:30 for a fast track to your bidding card.

++Can't come to the auction?  Be sure to have your radio tuned to 94.5 fm WELY End of the Road Radio to catch all the action. And if you want to bid from home, the phone number will be posted on this webpage the day before the auction.
++Want to enjoy an evening with friends? Then come to Amici's Event Center for live action. The doors will open at 3:30 so you can register before the auction begins. We usually have a line for registration, but if you bring the Express Registration Form already filled out, you'll have your bidder card in no time at all.  There will be snacks on the tables and a cash bar will be available to help you enjoy the evening.

One of our feature items is a $3000 Souris River Canoe donated jointly by the Red Rock Store out on the Fernberg Trail and Twin Metals Mining.  This kevlar beauty has black anodized trim with wood yoke and removable yoke pads. 

For a copy of the detailed write-up about this Quetico 16 LeTigre Canoe and all it's features, send an email to ElyRotaryAuction@gmail.com or scroll down below this post to read those details now. To see more of what the Red rock Store has to offer, visit http://redrockstore.com/.

The 2012 Auction will feature live bidding with Trader Craig as auctioneer, complimented by raffles, doorprizes, and a silent auction.  (Sorry, this year there will be no BBQ, but we will have snacks.)

Rotarians have been out collecting a great array of items for your bidding pleasure, as you can see in the photos. Ely area businesses are not only generous, but also inventive with their donations.  Currently the selection ranges from a two-person sauna (Thank you, Mealey's!) to five quarts of blueberries (if the harvest is good.)  And several local businesses are supporting the auction with cash donations -- always appreciated! -- A big thank you to Camp Van Vac, North Country Canoe Outfitters , American Family Insurance, the Frandsen Bank, Ely Vision Clinic, D and D Accounting, Ely Lodging, WildWoods Land Company, Bear Island Real Estate and Bear Island Surveying, Ely Area Credit Union, Bill Defenbaugh, Ely Auto Service, Cunningham Electric, Northeast Title, Phelps Chiropractic, Canoe Country Title, Klun Law, Custom Cabins, Dan Craighead, and Jim and Mary Pohve for their generous contributions.  

For your convenience, an insert in The Ely Shopper the Wednesday of the auction will list the items in the order they'll be offered to bidders, but check this webpage for a link on August 15 for last minute additions to the list after the printing deadline.

Photos showing some of what happens with the money raised at the auction are at the right. Each year these proceeds fund over $3,000 in scholarships for local students and other funds support local organizations. Our club website shows in more detail just what happens with the auction proceeds.

In 2009 Ely Rotary began a large project to furnish Whiteside Park and other community sites with benches, bike racks, trash bins and tables -- some wheelchair accessible -- installing over $27,000 worth of equipment. We're working hard to make this twenty-third auction even more successful so we can move on with new community projects.

Thank you, Mealey's for the Sauna, and Twin Metals Mining and Red Rock Store for making the Canoe donation!

CANOE DETAILS FROM JOE AT THE RED ROCK STORE:

This is a Souris River Quetico 16 in Le Tigre Kevlar.  It weighs 42 lbs. and comes with maintenance-free, black anodized aluminum trim, wood yoke, removable Jasper Joe yoke pads, and integrated skid plates.  The maximum payload capacity of the Quetico 16 is 850 lbs and it travels very well with two 200 lb (or smaller) paddlers and 200 lbs. or less of gear.  It also makes an excellent solo canoe by simply sitting in the

front seat and paddling it backwards.  The hull is symmetrical so solo paddling is very natural for the Quetico 16 with no modifications required.  The bottom is shallow-arched at the paddle stations and flatter in the middle which provides comfortable stability when paddled empty or loaded with gear.

The canoe has about one inch of rocker  beginning from the center of the hull which makes this canoe a tracker that will hold its position in the wind while still being able to turn when you need it to turn into a wind

by using traditional paddle strokes - nothing fancy needed to turn it.  The bow is 20" high and the center depth is 14".  The width is 34" at center gunwales.

Souris River Canoes are unlike all other canoes in that they are made with heat cured epoxy resin and have the unique ability to withstand impacts and flex where other regular kevlar canoes can not.  Unlike all other kevlar canoes, Souris Rivers are also built from four, full sheets of cloth including two kevlar and two  others.  This provides increased impact durability as there is no glued together areas to come apart that

affect the canoe.  So, if you wrap it around a rock backwards to where the stern paddler and the bow paddler can shake hands, chances are quite good that you will still be able to paddle the canoe home.  It'll look really bad, but it will still bring you home.

These are very unique kevlar canoes and they speak for themselves in 3-foot whitecaps, when you'll be glad you are in a Souris River Quetico canoe.

New Items Have Just Come In

 

Peschel Accounting has donated Two $50 gift certificates toward tax prep.

 Greenstone Landscape and Nursery is offering a gift certificate for 33 plants, including blueberries, strawberries and flowers

There is a $100 gift certificate from A Taste of Ely.

Northern Expressions' freshly-made waffle cones can be part of your auction loot if your bid is the highest one!  And Superman ice cream is a great choice for filling your cone.

You can get a one year subscription to the Ely Echo, which is read everywhere, as the photo shows.

2 Hr. Flyfishing lesson - May or Sept. 2013 - must make reservation - donated by Moose Track Adventures

Greg Mangold Construction is offering a coupon good for $200 off general excavation (man and machine)

Highstone Glass has given a pink glass vase

Timber Bay Lodge and Houseboats donated the use of a

2-person houseboat, 3-day weekend, gas not included

Joany's Barkery contributed a pink camo lead and collar.

LaTourell's on Moose Lake has donated a Seven-day Canoe Rental.

We have a battery operated trail camera from Shopko

Sir G's Italian Restaurant has offered 24 medium pasta meals.

Vermilion Community College is donating tuition and fees for a three-credit course during 2012-13

From Walsh Septic, a $100 credit toward a septic pump-out

A Cash Donation from Jim and Mary Pohve -- Many Thanks!

The Ely Shopper -- Watch for the auction list insert in the August 15 issue.

Dining for 6 months: 6 gift certificates at $10 each from the Junction Bar and Grill

Gift Certificate for Creek Ridge Lodge, donated by Dr.Udovich

Salt-glazed pottery from Evergreen Cottage

Antique Vase from Cobweb Antiques

$25 gift certificate and jewelry donated by Secret Sisters Boutique

KB Resources has donated an assortment of mugs

From Twin Metals Mining we have Billion Year Old Coasters

This Retro-styled Microphone has been donated by WELY Radio

This Travel Kit is from KB Resources

Fletcher Freeman, Attorney, donated this tabletop fountain

KB Resources offers this shopping tote.

These two books were donated by the Ely-Winton History Museum

Ely Photo gave this camera gift basket for the auction.

Bottle of 2009 Deyak Chokecherry wine donated by Scott and Joany Haag