Date: 9/1/26 4:06 am From: Diane Crookham-Johnson <dcj...> Subject: Re: [ia-bird] Silent Auction for Fall Meeting Announcement
John,
Do you know what our options will be for making payment for auction items?
Thanks,
Diane
On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 10:37 PM John Cecil <jcecil01...> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Ann Johnson had reached out to me before her passing wishing to donate a
> large collection of bird figurines she had accumulated over the years for
> auction at a future IOU meeting. Her family has passed these items on to me
> as per her wishes. There are too many to put into one auction so I will
> host another silent auction at another future meeting as well.
>
> My father and I have hosted silent auctions of donated books and other
> birding memorabilia at our meetings in years past. So AJ she had asked me
> to take this on and I of course was happy to do so. I am going to open the
> auction up for additional donations from members as well. The money
> collected will go to support our publications costs for the Iowa Bird Life.
>
> I know that the silent auction was something people enjoyed in past
> meetings so it was with some reservation I stopped doing it. One of the
> reasons was that I ended up with carloads of leftover books to haul back
> and forth between meetings.
>
> I am excited to be offering this again for the meeting. You are welcome to
> bring some nature and ecology related items to donate. However, I would ask
> a few things.
>
> - Please do not bring magazine collections. They will not sell and will
> end up being leftover trash to be dealt with.
> - If your books or items do not sell, please be willing to take them back
> with you.
> - Please bring books that you think will sell and people will have some
> interest in. (In years past we would haul around hundreds of books that
> would not sell for 3-4 meetings. I want to avoid this if possible)
> - Local birding pamphlets and old checklists just end up taking up space.
> Please leave them home
> - Old cassette tapes, vinyl records and VHS videos will end up being
> trash. no one buys them.
> - Binoculars, birding gear, and other non-literature items are welcome.
> Just please don't bring any figurines this time as we will have a lot of
> them already.
> -If you have a large collection of books you want to unload at the auction
> I kindly ask that you dont bring them all and select a number of books to
> bring. I don't have the space in my home to store them until the next
> meeting.
>
> The auction will be set up over the lunch hour on Saturday and will be
> completed at an announced time following the banquet dinner and
> presentation.
>
> I look forward to seeing all of you in a couple of weekends.
>
> John Cecil
> IOU Treasurer
>
>
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