Date: 9/1/26 5:11 am From: John Cecil <jcecil01...> Subject: Re: [ia-bird] Silent Auction for Fall Meeting Announcement
Great Question Diane,
Cash, check or PayPal will be accepted forms of payment.
John Cecil
On Tue, Sep 1, 2026, 6:06 AM Diane Crookham-Johnson <dcj...>
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> John,
> Do you know what our options will be for making payment for auction items?
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> Thanks,
> Diane
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> On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 10:37 PM John Cecil <jcecil01...> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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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