The Tyrone Area Community Organization’s Annual Radio Auction, which is the group’s largest fundraiser of the year, is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, February 10 and 11.
The Radio Auction will be aired live over WTRN 1340 AM.
Saturday, February 10, the auction is scheduled to begin at approximately 10:30 a.m., after the morning news. Sunday, February 11, the auction is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m.
For that weekend, The Daily Herald office will once again be transformed into the headquarters for the TACO Radio Auction, where the items and the phone lines will be located.
Individuals can participate by listening to TACO members describe the items over the airwaves, and if anyone is interested in bidding on an item, they may simply call 684-4000; 684-4001 or 684-4603 with an offer.
Listeners should tune in all day, as the order of the large items will be given at different times. TACO members do not know the exact time items will be auctioned off, so those interested should listen all day.
Over the years, the Radio Auction has been broadcast over one day. Because the auction has successfully grown, it has been expanded to fit over a two-day time period.
Cary Simpson and WTRN have donated airtime so that TACO can hold the Radio Auction over two days. Also, donated items for the event will be featured on a web site at www.wtrn.net.
Items can currently be viewed at The Daily Herald window in downtown Tyrone.
Approximately 315 businesses and organizations should have already received an informational letter in the mail from TACO asking for participation in the auction. All businesses are encouraged to participate. If a business is new to the area, TACO may not have sent a letter, so be sure to contact a member of TACO for more information or to donate an item for the auction.
Donations are currently being accepted and may be in the form of merchandise, a gift certificate, or a monetary donation. In exchange for a donation for the Radio Auction, the business will be promoted live over WTRN. If a business or individual donates more than one item, they will receive more airtime on the radio.
So far, TACO has received an assortment of gift certificates, merchandise and cash donations, with many more to come in the near future. An updated list will be printed in a future Daily Herald edition.
TACO has received donations from: The Daily Herald, B & L Gift Wholesale, G & R Excavating, Juniata College Book Store, Jeanne’s Home Decorating, M & T Bank, Olive Garden, Slinky Action Zone, Bull Pen, Suzi’s Scrubs and Uniforms, Town and Country Animal Hospital, Windy Hill, Sunshine Surplus, Lincoln Caverns, New Enterprise, James E. Grant, John Ayres Attorney, George’s Barber Shop and PS Printing.
Cash donations have already been received from: Heaton’s Fun Time Central, Heaton’s DJ, Taylor’s Heating and Air, Reliance Bank, Richard H. Searer Funeral Home and Chicago Rivet.
The money TACO raises helps to fund the projects the service organization sponsors for the Tyrone community in the coming year, and it is the group’s largest fund raiser of the year.
TACO sponsors such events as the Easter egg hunt, the fish rodeo, the Tyrone Halloween parade, a Distinguished Service Award and Boss of the Year Award.
It also sponsors a pee-wee baseball team and youth football competition as well as awards four scholarships of $500 each to seniors at Tyrone Area High School.
Along with those activities for the year, TACO was also able to help others in the surrounding areas because last year TACO had the most successful Radio Auction to date. TACO also helped Christopher Kirkpatrick and Logan Harper with their Eagle Scouts projects.
Chairpersons for the TACO Radio Auction include: president, Ruth Brower; vice president, Dave Kaup, Buddy Daughenbaugh and Tim Kirkpatrick.
Brower would like to thank everyone who made the most recent TACO spaghetti dinner such a huge success. TACO sold 145 out of 150 tickets, and the money raised goes towards the stamps, letters and envelopes used for the TACO Radio Auction.
If anyone has questions or donations, contact Buddy and Ruth at 684-3386, Dave at 684-1592 (after 3 p.m.) or Tim at 684-0704.
