Greetings, cavers! This is Crash, your manic Auctioneer, here to drum up support for the TCMA fundraising auction to be held Saturday 25 April at Schreiner Park in Kerrville during the TSA Spring Convention. For you past Auction attendees, you will recall how entertaining the Auction can be, and how much really good stuff gets donated to sell. And it's for a great cause: raising money to help pay off the mortgage to TCMA's Carta Valley preserve, which holds the world-class Punkin and Deep Caves. And we all know that cavers buying caves benefits us all! In the past we have auctioned off brand new ropes, historic caving ephemera, new caving and camping gear, weekends at nice B&Bs, ultralight airplane flights, hardcore (and softcore) cave trips, home-brewed beer, original artwork, and so much more. Last year I believe we raised over $3700. This year we are pushing to finish paying off the mortgage for the Punkin and Deep property, so we want to make this auction even better! We need some volunteers to solicit, store, and transport donations to the Convention site. We need cavers like yourselves to donate items to sell, or talk to your local businesses for donations of items (or money) to help with this fundraiser. And, of course, we need all of you to come to the Convention, and bid on items during the Auction. Contact me, Joe Ranzau (Auction treasurer), or any other TCMA board member if you have questions or would like to volunteer (http://www.tcmacaves.org). We'll have fun, there will be some surprises, and we'll help secure two great caves for our use. I hope to see you there, and remember, bid high, and bid often!
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