For more information, email Dawn Sanders at dsanders@ci.sammamish.wa.us.

Kate McCullough never met her aunt.

Her mother’s twin sister, Jean Angelis Majeski, had suffered under the haze of mental illness and depression for years. Then, at age 26, she ended her life.

Now, decades later, Angelis Majeski’s niece is walking 18 miles in her name.

On June 9 and 10 McCullough will have left Sammamish behind to take part in the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Out of the Darkness Overnight. From sundown to sun-up, people from around the country will walk through the streets of San Francisco to raise funds and awareness for suicide prevention. This is not the first time McCullough has walked through the night. She was there in 2008 when Seattle hosted the same event.

“The opening ceremony was bittersweet. That was when there were the most tears,” said McCullough. She added that it wasn’t all sad and that she actually enjoyed the walk because it gave her and others the chance to talk. “People don’t know what to say but the reality is that people want to talk about that person so it is a great opportunity to talk about that person or yourself.” While she didn’t know anyone at the 2008 event, McCullough said she felt welcome.

This time around McCullough will be joined by her two sisters and a group from around the Pacific Northwest. So far the team has raised nearly $1,300.

“This is fairly unique. Most people have been touched by mental illness and suicide, whether they know it or not,” said McCullough. Since she has started fundraising she said she has been contacted by a number of people who have lost someone to suicide. “They don’t always talk a lot, but it helps them to cope and feel like they are doing something to help.”

“When I started with the foundation in November 2009, I was not a survivor of a suicide loss,” wrote Pacific Northwest director Jo McNeal, in an email. “However, this past month I, sadly, lost a friend that I hadn’t seen in a while. This gave me more drive…it is devastating to everyone when you lose someone to suicide.”

McNeal and McCullough are not alone. Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death among Americans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 36,000 people kill themselves each year, but they are the minority as more people survive suicide attempts than actually die. The CDC also reports that emergency rooms annually treat more than 374,000 people with self-inflicted injuries.

There are a number of risk factors including addiction, family history of suicide or violence and physical illness. But the biggest one is mental illness. The journal “Clinical Neuroscience Research” reported in 2001 that more than 90 percent of people who killed themselves suffer from some sort of mental disorder, like depression. In 2003, a study published in the “Journal of Psychiatric Research” found that people with depression, those that had attempted suicide and the brains of suicide victims had decreased levels of serotonin, the body’s natural happy drug.

“Even though there has been enough research to prove this is a chemical illness it is very hard for people to understand that what you do with your emotions or thought is something that you may not be able to control or need help with,” said McCullough. “I myself have dealt with a lot of issues with mental health and it’s not something you can really talk about. If you have the flu, people are sympathetic.”

McCullough said combating the social stigma that is attached to mental illness is another reason why she is walking the 18 miles.

“I don’t think people are looking for a free card or empathy,” she said.”But we are just looking for an understanding.”

So far McCullough has raised $1,076, but she said she is determined to reach $1,500. That money and money others raised through the overnight event are set to support research and a variety of prevention, education and advocacy programs. A pair of three-mile local walks are set to take place across the state, including one in Seattle Oct. 13, at Green Lake Park. To find out more or to make a donation go to www.theovernight.org.

The National Suicide Prevention Landline at 1-800-273-8255 is free and available 24 hours a day to anyone who needs help or is worried about someone else.

Reporter Lillian Tucker can be reached at 392-6434, ext. 242 or ltucker@sammamishreview.

The stadium at Eastlake High School looked a lot different than usual last weekend.

The turf was littered not by athletes in helmets and pads, but by tents, lots of tents. There, on May 19 a group of 650 people camped out as part of Eastlake’s annual Relay for Life event. By the time the last team members finished walking the track early on the morning of May 20, the group of mostly students had raised $124,959 for the American Cancer Society. That number will go up in the coming days as matching donations pour in.

Photo by Lillian Tucker Relay for Life participants devoted much of their Saturday and early Sunday morning to walking laps around the track at Eastlake High School May 19-20. Photo by Lillian Tucker

To participate, each team member has to raise at least $100. However, many of them went far and above the minimum. The event’s top fundraiser was 17-year-old Jack Callahan. The co-chair of Eastlake’s relay raised $5,180, beating the fundraising efforts of his sister Bailey by $93.

“Personally cancer has affected my family severely,” said Jack. His little sister Maddy died on Nov. 30, 2009 after a year-long battle against leukemia. “Cancer is a thing where there are no sides – it’s something everyone agrees needs to be eradicated.” Jack’s little sister had four teams named in her honor, including Mighty Maddy 3, which finished the relay as the top fundraising team at $10,855.

“One of my favorite parts is looking at everyone’s different team name,” said Kaylee Hansen, who partnered with Jack to organize the relay. The junior at Eastlake raised $3,422. She and 15 other students walked as team “Fight Like a Girl.”

“My stepmom had breast cancer and that was her motto. She showed me the song, Fight Like a Girl by Bombshell, – that was her treatment song,” Kaylee said.

“Almost every tent here has a story,” said Jack. “It really shows how cancer touches everyone.”

Jack was joined by 19 other Eastlake students this year to help organize the Relay for Life. From advertising to showing up at school at 6 a.m. on a Saturday, the event was completely run by teenagers with the exception of a staff member from the American Cancer Society.

“It’s kind of hard being a youth event and getting sponsors,” said Hanson. “But being a youth event makes kids feel like they are actually doing something special.”

Sixteen-year-old Rheame Ali drove to Portland with a couple of friends the week before to pick up 60 loafs of bread.

“No one else would donate,” said Ali. “We got turned down by a lot of donors.”

However, things did come together in the end for the teens. Usually the students round up $1,000 worth of sponsorships, but this year, said Hanson, they found enough sponsors in the end to triple that.

The donated food was used to help keep participants going through the night.

Hanson said that she and her friends planned to run laps around the track and eat lots of sugar to keep themselves awake all night.

Other stimulants included live music, movies and a giant game of ultimate Frisbee.

After the luminaria ceremony that night, Jack said he planned to power through till the wee hours of the morning.

“That’s usually me,” he said. “After the luminary ceremony I’ll be walking till 4 a.m.”

After all, the promise to walk is what helps fuel donations. Money from the relay goes to the American Cancer Society to help fund research and other programs like providing wigs and rides to hospitals for cancer treatment.

“They’re programs to help make cancer more bearable,” said Jack. “My sister used a wig. It’s just a small thing that people want hair. But it means so much.”

Skyline High School plans to host its own Relay for Life June 2 – 3. For more information on the upcoming event and to sign up, go to www.relay.acsevents.org and search for Issaquah.

Reporter Lillian Tucker can be reached at 392-6434, ext. 242 or ltucker@sammamishreview.com.

There are her three childen, success at work serving new mothers, and most recently, the Spirit of Service Award from the Breastfeeding Coalition of Washington.

The coalition, comprised of hundreds of health professionals and parents from around the state, honored the Registered Nurse and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant at its annual awards ceremony March 9. Each year, the award is given to someone that is dedicated to “promoting, protecting and supporting breastfeeding as a vital part of the health and development of children and families.”

“What is so incredible about Lisa is that she talks the talk and she walks the walk,” said Rachel Schwartz, the coalition’s program manager.

With her oldest child in high school and her youngest in diapers, the mother of three has been at it a long time. And with each one, Whatley has made extended breastfeeding a part of their development.

“I am old enough to be the grandmother of many of the babies I care for,” wrote Whatley as she prepped for the awards ceremony. “And yet, I am passionately right there with them as a hormonal, sleep-deprived nursing and pumping mother.”

How she started

By the time she had her third child in 2010, Whatley had been in favor of extended breastfeeding, which refers to nursing a child for any length of time past their first year, for nearly two decades. In 1993, the same year that she and her husband bought their house on the Sammamish plateau, Whatley attended a 5-day program for health care professionals about lactation and breastfeeding. It was there, she said, that she decided she would nurse any baby of hers for as long as it was mutually beneficial for them. She refers to the philosophy as “don’t offer, don’t refuse,” and said it is about not scheduling nursing time and remember that sometimes a child nurses for other reasons besides feeding.

“It’s so neurologically centering for a kid who is overwhelmed by their world,” Whatley said. “Whether it’s an infant or a toddler who’s trying to separate from mom but sometimes needs to come back to that base.”

“I love that my children all remember nursing…even long after, they know how they were loved and cared for,” she said. “One of the things that people don’t understand about extended breastfeeding is how it is such a natural unfolding…it’s no different than how they could comfort their child at night.”

The standard medical advice is to recommend breast-feeding for at least the first 12 months, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics and other groups. The World Health Organization recommends continuing to breastfeed until the child is 2 years or older. All these organizations agree that most infants should be breastfed exclusively for their first six months. After that other food and nutrition should be mixed into their diet.

“Your kid eats like every other kid eats, but they also get to nurse,” said Whatley.

Weaning

The age of weaning ranges from 2 to 4 years in many societies around the world, wrote Dr. Eyla G. Boies, a pediatrician at the University of California, San Diego. Boies wrote about the topic in her 2004 article “Parental Concerns About Extended Breastfeeding in a Toddler,” in the journal, “Pediatrics.”

“There is limited but increasing evidence that breastfeeding beyond one year is also beneficial to the health of the child and, possibly, the mother,” wrote Boies.

“Most experts agree that, as long as a breastfeeding toddler is eating a variety of grains, vegetables, fruits and foods or supplements that provide adequate iron and vitamin D, “ wrote Boies, “nutrition will be adequate and growth and development will be ensured.

But extended breastfeeders, like Whatley, are the minority. According to the Surgeon General, 43 percent of American babies are breastfed past the age of six months. Once they hit the one-year mark that number goes down to about 22 percent.

“When I finished nursing school in 1991, I remember going into work hoping I had a bottle-feeding family because I was so intimidated,” said Whatley. “It wasn’t natural to me at that point.”

“It comes down a lot to culture and education. That is not what those people have grown up seeing,” said Schwartz.

Whatley said she has found that, in general, mothers are relieved to meet a normal woman that continues to breastfeed her toddler. “It’s almost like you give people permission to do what they are designed to do.”

Support for mothers

Another obstacle for nursing mothers is work. Last year the Surgeon General issued a call to action to support breastfeeding, which included suggesting employers provide lactation support programs for nursing employees, provide areas for breastfeeding and give paid maternity leave. As part of the federal Affordable Care Act, all employers are required to provide both break time and a place, other than the bathroom, for nursing employees to pump or breastfeed.

That’s good news for Schwartz and Whatley, who agree mothers need a wide social support net to nurse.

“I remember telling people with my other kids that sometimes nursing is the only good part of the day,” said Whatley. “When you have a toddler they are still just this innocent, loving child when they crawl up on your lap and need you that way.”

In early 2002, Kerry Monroe, of Sammamish, learned that her youngest son, Micah, had adult leukemia. That was 10 days before her husband, Jim, lost his six-year battle with mouth cancer.

She had never experienced such a disorienting grief, she said, and the days and months that followed were very difficult.

After her husband’s death, Monroe and her son lived at Seattle Children’s Hospital for a year and a half during his treatment. She left her two teenagers — Marlana, then a ninth-grader, and Brandon, then a senior in high school — at home to take care of themselves.

Those were “pretty important times for them — breaks my heart even today,” she said. But “what choice did I have?”

Micah recovered his health within a few years. He even went on to play for the school’s basketball team. He is now a senior at Western Washington University and will graduate in June.

Still, Monroe’s grief continued for many years. Mainly a stay-at-home mom, she served as the women’s ministry director at Calvary Chapel Eastside in Bellevue. It was at that time — six years ago — that she got the idea to write a book. Kim Case, the pastor’s wife at Calvary, suggested Monroe write about the many challenges she had faced. Such a book could help expose the truth about difficult issues that society often ignores, according to Case.

“As a culture, we do like problems to be solved in 46 minutes and we don’t have the stomach for real dialogue about issues like rape, abortion, domestic violence, etc.,” Case said. “Kerry isn’t afraid to go there. (Her) loss is real, her life is open, her heart is tender.”

Monroe initially laughed at the idea. She didn’t think anyone would be interested in her story. But she had already had several poems, prose and prayers published and distributed to many churches. She often spoke at women’s luncheons and retreats. This triggered the idea that there might actually be an interest in writing a book.

Hence the beginning of “God Always Knew” was born. After initially being published last summer, the book was re-released in January. Monroe combined her life experiences and Christian faith to write the tragedy-to-triumph story. It is “a very transparent look at what (the relationship with God) looks like,” she said.

Just like her personal journey, the writing process wasn’t easy. Monroe battled with the painful details of her story. She exposed her personal scars from sexual and physical abuse, identity crisis and abandonment by parents. She also faced the dilemma of how much should one share without dishonoring someone’s life, in terms of past abuse.

“Many tears were shed while writing this book for many reasons,” she said. “To open up old wounds and relive the past, or to relive all the pain of dealing with my loved ones’ battle with cancer, was daunting to say the least.”

Monroe wrote “feverishly” and wept through every chapter as it came out. She would then put the manuscript away and come back to it later. She said while people often hide from their true feelings, it’s really best to be honest and express the feelings as they are. She said she believes writing helps promote healing.

It took Monroe about a year to finish writing. Jebaire Publishing published the book last August, and then did another printing in January. Jebaire is an independent, nondenominational Christian book publisher. As an “author’s company,” its job is “to provide a platform for the Christian writing community to have their voices heard” as it is difficult to break into the publishing industry, according to its website. The distribution list for “God Always Knew” included big names, such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Monroe said she received an uplifting response for her book.

She now works at Northwest Multiple Listing Service, a database service for real-estate firms, and Marketplace Chaplains USA. She also started a grief coaching business, A.N.E.W. — an acronym for the steps needed to cope with grief — after receiving training from the Grief Coaching Center.

“If my honesty and transparency can help another person to fully heal, then I have done what I believe God has asked me to do,” she said.

She said she hopes to use her story as a catalyst to shine God’s love and grace.

“You see,” Monroe said, “my story is really his story.”

Jessica Yuwanto is a student in the University of Washington Department of Communication News Laboratory.

“You learn so much about your own faith when you look through the perspectives of others,” said Lynn Kittridge, who teaches religious studies at the school.

The group from Eastside Catholic High School checks out a group of deities while touring the Vedic Cultural Center. Photo by Lillian Tucker

As part of her class’s curriculum, Kittridge lead a group of 15 high school freshman on a tour of the community’s Hindu center on April 18. She explained that going on a spiritual journey is one of the basics of Catholic school. “We ask questions like ‘how is that similar,’ ‘how is that different,’ and ‘what can we learn from other religions?’”

Inside the pink building with its gold trim the students took their shoes off and sat on ornamental carpets in the center’s temple to listen to their teacher give them an over view of the Hindu faith. In front of them red velvet curtains opened to reveal a shrine of deities, which included one of Krishna, who is a central figure of Hinduism. The students learned that Krishna, which as a word is often translated to mean black or darkness, is often portrayed as being black to show his universality as black can contain many colors.

“They definitely get benefited by coming here,” said Reena Gupta, who volunteers at the center. “In our philosophy we say even if one hears the name Krishna…his spiritual life begins from that time.”

During their short visit the freshman also learned that cows are sacred in Hinduism because they symbolize that god is in all living things and that the color red is a sign of Krishna’s blessing.

Gupta said that originally the Vedic Center was supposed to be painted red but that city of Sammamish didn’t agree with the color choice. As a compromise, she said, the building was painted pink.

“It was kind of fun to visit the pink temple because we always drive by but don’t know what it is,” said James Grice, a freshman at Eastside Catholic. “We do all this math and science and figure out how things work but religion is in the background…It’s interesting, I fell like it’s almost kind of related to Christianity or Catholicism; they just express it in a different way.”

This is the third year that the school has been taking its students on tour of the Vedic Center and Eastside Catholic said that the center continues to very friendly and welcoming.

“Later when we are out of school,” said 14-year-old Ian Dorney, “it’s important to know about different people’s faiths so we don’t offend.”

Reporter Lillian Tucker can be reached at 392-6434, ext. 242 or ltucker@sammamishreview.com.

It was blue and born in the 60s. While its age gave it a cool retro veneer, it also meant the bike needed some work – a lot of it. So Trask conceded and welcomed her husband’s shiny gift into her life.

“I needed to find something special to do with the old, blue bike,” said Trask. That’s when she found out about the Village Bike Project, which to date has shipped 55,000 used bikes to Africa and taught 11,000 people bike repair skills in Ghana and Sierra Leone.

The idea behind the project is to provide a cheap mode of transportation for people who otherwise have to walk from place to place.

Trask found out that the project was loading a cargo container full of bikes and shipping it from Seattle’s port.

She said that she figured if she was going to make the trip to Seattle she might as well make it worth it and started collected other used bikes to donate.

Seven years later, Trask estimates that she has collected around 5,000 bikes for the project through her own bike drive in Sammamish and on April 29 the tradition continues at Sammamish City Hall.

“Every year we get the same feedback that the volunteers love it,” said Trask. “People who donate their bikes love knowing that their bikes are going to get a second chance…they are going to make such a huge difference in Ghana.”

Trask said that she was particularly inspired by the story of a nurse in rural Africa who used to have to walk from village to village, which meant that sometimes it took her a week to go from one village to the next. The project gave her bike and taught her how to ride and repair it.

“We take it for granted because we teach our kids at a young age how to ride but for these people who have never ridden anything with wheels before it is a real challenge,” said Trask. “Now she [the nurse] can see so many people and she is so much more efficient. For me, that has shown me what a difference this can make.”

Trask’s enthusiasm has spread. People from all over Sammamish have gotten involved, including individuals who have never worked on a bike before to families to Kiwanis and Key Club members.

Alex Taam, a 2011 graduate of Eastside Catholic, initiated a school-wide bike drive four years ago to add to Trask’s collection.

Now that he is no longer a student his little sister Michelle has taken the torch and has organized several collection days at the school. Evan Dauterman, a student at Eastlake High School, has chosen to help collect bikes for his Eagle Scout project. Dauterman has been volunteering with the donation efforts for years with his family.

“I’ve seen kids who came when they were 6 or 7 years old when what they could do was hand the wrenches to mom or dad,” said Trask. “It’s been fun to see that they still have a passion for it.”

Fourteen-year-old Tinuola Dada and her mother Arinola have been huge helps in the past, said Trask.

This year Tinuola has organized a bike drive at her alma mater elementary school, the French Immersion School on W. Lake Sammamish Pkwy on April 28 from noon to 3 p.m. to give people who don’t live on the plateau a chance to donate.

“It just tells me how much she’s grown. For me it is just amazing,” said Arinola about her daughter.

The Dada’s moved from Nigeria 16 years ago and have lived in Sammamish for the last 12. “Over the years we’ve traveled all over the world and one of the things the kids are realizing is that whether it is the small remote part of the United States or Nigeria, they are realizing there are always the people who have and the people who don’ t have.”

During the bike drive April 29 at Sammamish City Hall volunteers will be collecting bikes and getting them ready for shipping by doing things like lowering the seats and removing the pedals and plastic-tying them to the handle bars.

Trask said they will also be collecting bike parts and bikes with missing parts.

Items can be dropped off between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. To learn more contact Trask at 425- 868-8448 or mary@arasfoundation.org.

Reporter Lillian Tucker can be reached at 392-6434, ext. 242 or ltucker@sammamishreview.com.

Falaah Jones, an educator for Seattle Tilth, said living in a condominium or apartment doesn’t have to mean an end to someone’s gardening career.

Just about anything that can be grown in a traditional garden can be grown in any other sort of receptacle – a pot, a box or a barrel, for example.

Jones urges gardeners to get creative.

“You can garden in just about anything,” she said. “An old drawer. A shoe. Think outside the box.”

Jones said the key is to make sure whatever container you’re using has enough room for whatever you’re growing. As little as six to nine inches of soil will do for most lettuces and herbs, although vegetables with larger root structures like tomatoes may need a 5-gallon pot or bigger. Packaging on store-bought seeds will typically indicate whether a plant is made for growing in a container – look for words like “dwarf,” “compact” or “determinative.”

Jones also suggests using compost and organic, slow-release fertilizer rather than synthetic brands, which aren’t as effective in the long term.

“You’re trying to feed the soil, not the plant,” she said. “It’s kind of like Vitamin C for humans in that we can only drink so much during a day and the rest is wasted.”

In addition to making the most out of a small space, containers are handy in that they’re portable.

Jones suggests putting wheels on your garden box, making it easy to move to a sunnier spot if things aren’t growing as well as you hope.

Wood makes for the best garden containers, both for aesthetic reasons and because metal containers could leak contaminants into the soil and, therefore, your vegetables, Jones said.

Jones said you don’t typically need to replace all of the soil in a container from year to year, though adding a mix of potting soil and compost to the upper layer is a good idea during planting season.

She does suggest switching up which types of vegetables are grown in a particular container, though – particularly for tomatoes, cabbage and onions.

“Those are the most prone to problems if you don’t change them up,” she said.

If you don’t have a back deck to turn into an epic garden, a community garden, or “P-Patch” is a good way to get a plot of land to call your own.

The city of Sammamish is currently in planning stages for a planting area open to all city residents, and several neighborhoods already provide them.

Larry Crandall, a parks commissioner for the city, has been tending to a plot in the community garden at Jacob’s Creek Condominiums for the last seven years.

Crandall and his wife have had good luck with a whole assortment of flowers and vegetables.

The Crandalls even got several edible artichokes off a plant from the garden last year.

Larry Crandall said there’s something special about finally getting to consume the fruits of your labor.

“They’re delicious,” he said. “It’s noticeably different than what you buy in the store.”

Learn more

Seattle Tilth will be offering local gardeners tips on growing your veggie garden vertically to maximize your space and harvest at Pickering Barn in Issaquah from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. June 9. For more information, visit http://seattletilth.org/learn.

Reporter Caleb Heeringa can be reached at 392-6434. ext. 247, or cheeringa@isspress.com.

That’s how you say thank you in Guatemala and Tanzania, and both are the focus of the fund-raising auction that the Sammamish Hills Lutheran church is hosting on April 21.

That night from 7 to 10 p.m. the Mary, Queen of Peace Church will be filled with live music, an array of desserts and drinks to accompany a silent and live auction to benefit the churches on-going effort to offer support in Central America and Africa.

The money raised will be split between helping to fund a humanitarian trip to Guatemala and buying building supplies for a school in Tanzania.

Twenty-three-year-old Nichole Kurz is leading the charge by planning to accompany a group of two dozen, mainly high-school students from around Sammamish, on a 10-day trip to Antigua, Guatemala at the end of June to build houses.

“It’s letting them get out and see the world in different ways,” said Kurz, who went on a trip to Tijuana her sophomore year of high school to build houses. “It changed my life.”

In Guatemala her group will be working with the God’s Child Project, an organization that works with orphaned, abandoned and poverty-stricken children and their families. According to its website, the project focuses on the underlying causes of poverty by providing clinics, schools, social work, micro-finance, homeless shelters, drug rehabilitation and human trafficking advocacy.

“I’m super passionate about kids and education and I love the way God’s Child focuses not just on the child learning but the child’s well being,” said Kurz, adding that the organization also charges tuition on a sliding scale that starts at 1 cent to encourage the children to take ownership of their education. “Their families also have the opportunities to participate in a bi-weekly veggie store. Obviously, having better food at home helps them learn more.”

Kurz said her group hopes to build five or more houses on their trip but said it all depends on how much money they raise at the auction to buy building materials.

“I’ve been pretty excited with our success in getting items,” said Kurz. Some of the donations up for grabs include Sounders and Mariners tickets, wine, chocolate and scrapbooking baskets, an Alaska wilderness trip, a resort stay, fishing, sailing and golfing packages and a private flight to San Juan Island for a picnic.

Event organizer Linda Saddler said the church hasn’t targeted an exact fundraising goal.

“We are just doing the best we can,” she said. “People in the congregation and their friends have been extremely generous.”

Saddler was among the group of nine that traveled to Tanzania several years ago to research projects for the church to support. She said it was an easy choice to settle on helping to build the Eben-Ezer secondary school in Morogoro, Tanzania.

“We felt it was a good fit,” said Saddler. “The emphasis this school is going to have is math and science, which is very unusual for over there.”

With four buildings completed, the live-in school is still under construction. Once it’s finished, it will include classrooms, technology and science lab, dorms, and administrative offices, and it will serve students from the American equivalent of seventh grade through sophomore year of college.

Money from the auction will help buy more building materials for the school.

After her initial visit, Saddler returned to Morogoro on her own dime a few years later to see for herself the progression of the construction.

“It’s a wonderful experience to get to go,” Saddler said, “You come away with a feeling of joy because you see these people be so happy with what little things they have.”

Tickets for the auction event are $15 and include two drink coupons and unlimited desserts. For more information or to purchase tickets contact Kurz at nichole@nadalin.net.