The Online Auction is Closed! Thank you for your participation! We invite you to Bid and Boogie at our Live Auction on Friday, November 20 at the Samoset Resort in Rockport!
A quick note to all of our winning bidders...
Congratulations on placing your winning bid.
Please allow several days for us to process the auction results, bill the credit cards and begin fulfillment of your auction items.We know that you’ll be pleased with your purchases and look forward to your continued support in future auctions as well.
If you have any questions about your item fulfillment, please call Shari Closter at 800-562-2529, ext. 22 or email her at shari@therealmaine.com. She will be contacting you to obtain information on shipping any physical items. All gift certificate(s) will be mailed automatically to all winning bidders at no cost.
The Penobscot Bay Regional Chamber of Commerce is truly grateful to our community and to all those who took part in our benefit auction.We thank you again for your generosity and for supporting our cause.
Our online auction has now closed and we’d like to take a moment to express our tremendous gratitude to everyone who helped make it a success.
Special thanks to:
- All of our generous donors and sponsors
- Everyone who participated and invited friends and family to bid
- Our dedicated families, constituents and community of supporters
Bid and Boogie at our Live Auction on Friday, November 20th, at the Samoset Resort!
There is free admission to the live event. A catalog of all auction items will be available as you enter the live event. The preview is from 5-6 pm, with the live auction starting at 6pm.
The featured item this year at the chamber auction is a FISHER HT Series snowplow from Fisher Engineering, valued at $5115! Thank you to Fisher Engineering for your generosity again this year, we really appreciate your support. Blade width, 7', 6".
Thank you to our auction event sponsors: Fisher Engineering, Bangor Metro, Gamage Antiques, The Free Press, the UPS Store and VillageSoup.
The live auction will have Bruce & Becky Gamage as the auctioneer team, a concession stand, raffle auction items (including five $100 cash raffle prizes) and an elimination drawing. Thank you to our $100 cash raffle prize sponsors: Bruce Gamage - Gamage Antiques, James W. Brannan, Rolf Winters - Knowlton Moving & Storage Corp., Captain Steve Hale - Captain Jack Lobster Boat Adventure and Mike Jones - Camden National Bank.
$500 Elimination Drawing at live event: The Elimination Drawing board consists of 100 numbers being sold at $20 each, in which one winner will receive a cash prize of $500. Every half-hour, starting at 6:30 p.m., 20 numbers will be randomly selected and removed from the board until only one number is left. This person will receive $500 in cash!
For those that wish to stay overnight after the auction and dance, the Samoset Resort is offering a special rate of $119.00 for an overnight stay. For reservations, call 207-594-2511 or 800-341-1650 and reference the chamber auction special room rate.
New at this year's Chamber auction will be the Pat Pepin Band known as the "Mojo Mamas", who will come on stage after the live auction. The live auction event will end at approximately 8:30 pm and the band will be playing for about three hours. Free admission. Thank you to our band sponsors: Bangor Savings Bank, Bank of America, Bar Harbor Bank & Trust, Camden National Bank, Damariscotta Bank & Trust Co., Five County Credit Union, KeyBank, Machias Savings Bank, Midcoast Federal Credit Union, Rockland Savings Bank, TD Bank and The First.
Thank You to the following Contributors
Bruce Gamage & Becky Gamage
Auctioneer Team
Samoset Resort
For facilities and planning assistance
Mass AV - The Event Staging Company
Complimentary usage of easels
Mary Sesak - Sesak Art, Illustration & Design
Advertising, Postcard & Poster Design
ChelTed Gallery - Ted Skowronski & Michelle Painchaud
Event Banners
Auction Committee, Volunteers and Board of Directors
Amber Armstrong and Amber Heffner - Decorations
Top Referrers
Top 10 Items
- Two Night Stay at the Hampton Inn & Suites - Rockland/Thomaston
- 2005 Lobster Festival Poster by Deborah Winship
- One Round of Golf for two (2) People at Samoset Resort Golf Club
- Overnight Stay at the Island Inn, Monhegan Island
- 2 Nights Lodging - Claddagh Motel & Suites
- 7 yards of 1" Driveway Gravel - George C. Hall & Sons, Inc.
- FISHER®HT Series Snowplow (7' 6")
- Philips Sonicare, the Sonic Toothbrush - Glen Cove Dental Associates
- Bag 'O Money from KeyBank
- Half Day at the Spa Package - Skin Klinic and Day Spa
Top 10 Bidders
Auction Stats
Bid and Boogie on November 20th with the Pat Pepin band, the Mojo Mamas!
Pat Pepin is a singer and saxophonist who knows the blues from the inside out. She sings with conviction and power, infusing her music with heart-felt emotion reminiscent of her vocal influences: Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin and Etta James. The central Maine-based singer and saxophonist has been on the music scene for 20 years. She will be joined on stage with Jan Sturtevant, and they form a blue duo called the "Mojo Mamas", which has been electrifying audiences around Maine for the past several years.
They both got involved at a young age in music through church, living and making music just miles apart for years. They met for the first time two years ago at a festival.
"We had a ball. Right off, there was an instant con-section," said Pepin of Readfield. Friendship came fast. Pepin - who has her own group, the Pat Pepin Project, and Sturtevant quickly decided to form their own band. They named it the Mojo Mamas. Pepin is the front woman, jamming on the sax guitar and foot drums. Sturteva plays the piano and assists with vocals.
Jan Sturtevant has been in bands around Maine since the 1970s, including a fiddle group and a gospel-funk band. She gives private lessons in piano, voice and and guitar. All three of her children are musical, and one of her sons is currently studying for a master's degree in musical composition.
Pat has worked all her professional life as a vocalist, sax player, song writer and music teacher. She has done so while simultaneously raising two children, building her own home and earning her degree in music from the prestigious University of Maine, Augusta. Today, she also assumes an active role as grandmother to her daughter's four children.
With a career that spans over 25 years of experience, three CDs, a tour schedule that has included gigs and appearances up and down the east coast, Pat truly believes that she has what it takes. She fully expects to achieve her goal of touring internationally and to continue to create and deliver high energy, honest entertainment.
Pat has shared the stage with many of today's leading blues artists and was a featured performer at numerous blues festivals, including the North Atlantic Blues Festival in Rockland, ME; 2008 South Florida International Blues Festival; Women in Blues Festival III, Wilmington, NC and the 2009 Waterside Blues Festival, Ft Pierce, FL She earned the right to represent Maine three times in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis TN and received the coveted "Mojo Boogie" award during the 2009 Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise.
For more information, go to www.patpepin.com.
The Auction May Be Gone, But Our Mission Goes On!
Even though our auction has ended, our organization and our mission have not. We would greatly appreciate your continued support in terms of time, effort and funding, and will do our best to keep you up to date on future activities.
The mission of the Chamber is to promote the interests of member businesses and to encourage economic development while functioning in a manner that is compatible with the environment, protects natural and cultural resources and sustains the heritage of the communities it serves.
We are a membership organization located in Rockland, Maine, serving coastal Knox and Waldo counties. This auction is one of our most important fundraisers and supports the many community and business initiatives of the Chamber in making the Rockland area a great place to live and do business.
These initiatives include:
• Marketing & public relations
• Economic development
• Publications, including the Maine Discovery Coast Magazine and Chamber Business (newsletter)
• Government & public affairs
• Maintaining & building our membership and volunteer base
• Operating annual events
• Education initiatives
Thank you to all of our sponsors for this year's event!
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