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Immanuel Shopping Night is Monday
By Mike Jordan (November 20, 2009)
It was four years ago this year that Immanuel Lutheran School first decided to host a shopping night as a fundraiser for the school’s Children’s Fund. Come Monday night, the 2009 version will kick off at 5 p.m. and run until 8:30, at which at least 26 vendors will be on hand offering their special wares for sale all in one place — Immanuel’s activity center.
“All the proceeds from the vendor fees, soup and chili supper and gift baskets we are auctioning off in our silent auction go to Immanuel School’s Children’s Fund,” said Dellynne Monson, head of Immanuel’s Shopping Night Committee. “Those funds help us pay for books for the students, field trips, needed school supplies and other school miscellaneous expenses throughout the year.”
Entrance to this special night of shopping is free with the soup and chili meal being offered for a freewill offering.
“And Holly Schmit’s homemade buns will be a part of that meal too,” Monson added. “The vendors really have something of interest to everyone. There will be everything from craft and home decorating offerings to apparel, kitchen items, jewelry, photography and scrapbooking, as well as toys, food items and health and beauty items.”
All of the vendors come from Lakefield and the surrounding areas including some from Jackson, Worthington and Okabena. They include representatives of Avon, Arbonne, Country Coop, Discovery Toys, Fitzloff Photography, lia sophia, Pampered Chef, Marcy Costello Jewelry and gifts, Mary Kay, Poppe’s Pumpkins, Premier Designs, Tastefully Simple, Immanuel Scrip, Tupperware and many more.
“We will have our silent auction gift baskets on display that night as well,” Monson said. “They are beautifully decorated and creatively filled in a variety of themed items like the movie basket they had last year that had a number of movies and popcorn items in it, beautiful jewelry baskets, a relaxation basket that had bath and beauty items in it and coffee basket with a variety of coffees and mugs in it and some sports teams baskets like last year’s Minnesota Vikings basket. We had 31 basket total last year that we auctioned off and raised about $2,000 for the children’s fund. It was great and we are hoping for more baskets this year.”
Following the Immanuel Shopping Night Monday evening, the baskets will be moved to Sioux Valley School’s gymnasium where they will be on display for silent bidding throughout the entire Sioux Valley Living Nativity presentations, which are scheduled this year on Saturday, Nov. 28, and Sunday, Nov. 29, from 4 to 7 p.m. each day.
Following that event, the baskets will return to Immanuel Lutheran Church’s basement where they will be available for silent bidding until after the Dec. 8 Immanuel school basketball games when the bidding will cease.
All winners will be contacted by phone and will be able to pick up their baskets after that evening, according to Monson.
“We will have many door prizes that we will be giving away that evening as well,” Monson said. “People can register for those door prizes at the door as they enter the activity center. Some of the door prizes we already have include beautiful cards and wrapping paper, cookbooks and many other items donated by the vendors for this special night as a prize.”
The confirmation class at Immanuel is also offering babysitting services for shoppers that night as well.
“This night is not just for women either,” Monson said. “It is for everybody and a nice opportunity to come out and get a good start on Christmas shopping with items from 26 local vendors or more all right here in Lakefield at one location for one night.”
“All the proceeds from the vendor fees, soup and chili supper and gift baskets we are auctioning off in our silent auction go to Immanuel School’s Children’s Fund,” said Dellynne Monson, head of Immanuel’s Shopping Night Committee. “Those funds help us pay for books for the students, field trips, needed school supplies and other school miscellaneous expenses throughout the year.”
Entrance to this special night of shopping is free with the soup and chili meal being offered for a freewill offering.
“And Holly Schmit’s homemade buns will be a part of that meal too,” Monson added. “The vendors really have something of interest to everyone. There will be everything from craft and home decorating offerings to apparel, kitchen items, jewelry, photography and scrapbooking, as well as toys, food items and health and beauty items.”
All of the vendors come from Lakefield and the surrounding areas including some from Jackson, Worthington and Okabena. They include representatives of Avon, Arbonne, Country Coop, Discovery Toys, Fitzloff Photography, lia sophia, Pampered Chef, Marcy Costello Jewelry and gifts, Mary Kay, Poppe’s Pumpkins, Premier Designs, Tastefully Simple, Immanuel Scrip, Tupperware and many more.
“We will have our silent auction gift baskets on display that night as well,” Monson said. “They are beautifully decorated and creatively filled in a variety of themed items like the movie basket they had last year that had a number of movies and popcorn items in it, beautiful jewelry baskets, a relaxation basket that had bath and beauty items in it and coffee basket with a variety of coffees and mugs in it and some sports teams baskets like last year’s Minnesota Vikings basket. We had 31 basket total last year that we auctioned off and raised about $2,000 for the children’s fund. It was great and we are hoping for more baskets this year.”
Following the Immanuel Shopping Night Monday evening, the baskets will be moved to Sioux Valley School’s gymnasium where they will be on display for silent bidding throughout the entire Sioux Valley Living Nativity presentations, which are scheduled this year on Saturday, Nov. 28, and Sunday, Nov. 29, from 4 to 7 p.m. each day.
Following that event, the baskets will return to Immanuel Lutheran Church’s basement where they will be available for silent bidding until after the Dec. 8 Immanuel school basketball games when the bidding will cease.
All winners will be contacted by phone and will be able to pick up their baskets after that evening, according to Monson.
“We will have many door prizes that we will be giving away that evening as well,” Monson said. “People can register for those door prizes at the door as they enter the activity center. Some of the door prizes we already have include beautiful cards and wrapping paper, cookbooks and many other items donated by the vendors for this special night as a prize.”
The confirmation class at Immanuel is also offering babysitting services for shoppers that night as well.
“This night is not just for women either,” Monson said. “It is for everybody and a nice opportunity to come out and get a good start on Christmas shopping with items from 26 local vendors or more all right here in Lakefield at one location for one night.”