2017 AUCTION CATALOG 1 evening schedule 5:30 pm Dear Friends, Reception It is my pleasure to welcome you to the seventh annual Hard Hat & Black Silent Auction Tie Dinner and Auction. Tonight, we are gathered at the Portland Art Museum to celebrate and support the work of Habitat for Humanity Portland/Metro East. With every paddle raised this evening, your generous 7:00 pm support will help future Habitat homeowners build better lives for Silent Auction Ends themselves and their families. Seating for Dinner Many hardworking people in our city are in need of decent and affordable housing. Every day, we read the news headlines about our city’s housing crisis. Tonight, we have the opportunity to make a huge impact. 7:15 - 9:15 pm Dinner At Habitat, we provide a hand-up, not a hand-out. Families purchase an affordable home and help build it with the support of our staff and Program volunteers. Together, we can help many local families build strength and stability through affordable homeownership. Pick Your Prize Raffle Live Auction Tonight would not be possible without the support of our generous sponsors and donors. Thank you to those who graciously donated their Airline Tickets Raffle time and resources to help plan this special evening. I hope you will join me and my peers on the Habitat Board by raising your paddles tonight and giving generously so we can increase the impact WALL Habitat has in our community. RAISING In Partnership, CHALLENGE WITH EVERY BUNDLE OF LUMBER BOUGHT during Ian K. Gordon, Board Chair the Live Auction, another wall is raised, and with every wall, another home is built with a deserving family. If we Habitat for Humanity Portland/Metro East are able to buy 500 bundles of lumber this evening, we will be able to frame 20 Habitat homes for 20 families! Your generosity will help build healthy homes and healthy families, one bundle of lumber at a time! 2 3 presenters Lizet’s Story Drew Carney Emcee Drew Carney joined KGW-TV in September of 2006. His entertaining reports can be seen weekday mornings on KGW News at Sunrise. He’s also the co-host of the Portland Today program airing weekdays at 2pm. Drew’s TV career began nearly 20 years ago while attending college at Temple University in Philadelphia. After graduating from Temple, he was a sports anchor/reporter with jobs in smaller markets, including Abilene, Texas and Johnstown, Pennsylvania. In October of 2000, Drew moved to Portland and two years later made the switch from sports anchor to feature segment reporter. Since then, he’s called the Pacific Northwest home. He’s married to a born-and-raised Oregonian and they share a home just Lizet has been searching for a stable and affordable home as her two daughters, Daphne and outside Portland with their twin boys. Sharon, grow older. They have moved multiple times over the past few years due to rent increases and want to live closer to Lizet’s work without the fear of their home becoming unaffordable. Lizet heard about Habitat for Humanity through her friend Rosa, who also purchased a Johnna Wells Auctioneer Habitat home in 2015. While Rosa was in the program, Lizet helped her complete some of her sweat equity hours, which inspired her to apply to the homeownership program. Founder and President of Benefit Auctions 360, Johnna is a second generation auctioneer, and graduate of the Reppert Lizet loves her job as a bilingual Family Resources Coordinator where she conducts home School of Auctioneering in Auburn, Indiana. Johnna is a former visits and provides resources to individuals in the community. She also works part-time with Northwest Rookie Auctioneer Champion and was awarded the the YMCA teaching classes in Spanish about diabetes awareness. Lizet is passionate about prestigious title of 2005-2006 International Auctioneer Champion helping people through some of the difficult life situations she has also experienced. in the Women’s Division. Johnna is a past President of the Oregon Auctioneers Association, and is a member of the Oregon and Daphne and Sharon love swimming, running, and playing with their dog, Gigi. Daphne Idaho State Auctioneers Associations as well as the National dreams of becoming a doctor and Sharon aspires to be a teacher or a painter. Both girls cannot Auctioneers Association. wait to move into their new home where they will have more space to play and to dream big. In her spare time, Johnna loves being a doting mother, writing, making art and kayaking. She is passionate about maintaining HABITAT FOR HUMANITY PORTLAND/METRO EAST believes in a world where an active role in philanthropic endeavors for many organizations everyone has a decent place to live. We help families build strength, stability, and self-reliance throughout the Portland area. through homeownership right here in Portland. Every donation ensures a family has a foundation to build a future. 4 5 live auction 1. Redwoods Retreat 9. Spring or Fall in Costa Rica 2. Dallas Cowboys NFL Experience 10. Manzanillo Luxury Oceanfront 1 3. Your Personal Wine Cellar 11. Carter Work Project 4. New Orleans Getaway 12. Go Greek in the Garden! 5. Winemaker Dinner at Soter Vineyards 13. NW Wanderlust 6. Timbers Season Tickets! 14. Portland Town & Country Redwoods Retreat 7. Fly with Alaska Airlines 15. Rose City Soccer Donated by Faviana Priola & Dayle Williams 8. Under The Tuscan Sun Let the relaxing powers of nature invigorate you at this bohemian redwoods retreat! This Habitat for Humanity ReStore-remodeled, 1920s home features a window wall for forest viewing, an expansive open kitchen, vintage furnishings and bright skylights; the perfect mixture of vintage and distinctive looks with modern and natural elements. Located across the street from the Russian River and next to the charming and rustic vacation town of “PICK YOUR PRIZE” RAFFLE Buy $100 raffle tickets for your chance to pick your prize from Guerneville, this area offers a pleasing blend of towering redwoods, cool river waters, laid-back our list of live auction items! attitudes and Sonoma Wine Country delights. Drive twenty minutes or less and visit over 50 $100 boutique wineries, hike among giants in the awe-inspiring Armstrong Woods State Park or $100 We will pick one winner before the start of the Live Auction. say hello to the Pacific Ocean at Sonoma Coast State Park. At the end of your day, sit back and Only 100 tickets will be sold, so each ticket purchased has a 1/100 chance of winning. For more details, read the package relax on the back deck with a bottle of wine and let the wonders of the redwoods renew you! descriptions in the following pages. *All live auction items are included in the raffle except the Manzanillo, Mexico and Timbers Season Tickets packages. A winner selecting the Winemaker Dinner at Soter Vineyards will receive 10 tickets. details • Enjoy a 6-day, 5-night stay in Rio Nido, California. Just 20 minutes away from Sonoma County Airport! AIRLINE TICKET RAFFLE • This 3-bed, 3-bath home accommodates up to 6 people. Not suitable How does a $25 flight sound? Purchase raffle tickets for a chance for children under 12. at free airfare! You and a guest will fly round-trip on any domes- • Across the street from the Russian River – perfect for canoeing, $25 tic flight via Southwest Airlines. Prize valued at $800.* swimming and fishing. $25 • $100 Gift Certificate to John Ash & Co. Restaurant, located in nearby Santa Rosa. We will pick one winner at the end of the Live Auction. 400 • Korbel Champagne Cellars, Ferrari-Carano, Ledson and over 100 Sonoma wineries tickets will be sold, so each ticket purchased has a 1/400 chance are a convenient drive away! of winning. • Home available January 2 – April 30, 2018. *Four (4) one-way Southwest e-passes which can be combined for domestic round-trip transportation within the U.S. Tickets expire 9-26-2018. For purchase by Oregon residents only. 6 7 2 3 Dallas Cowboys NFL Getaway Your Personal Wine Cellar Donated by Dallas Cowboys and Shawn Cox Donated by the Habitat for Humanity Portland/Metro East Board of Directors Are you ready for some football? Attending a Dallas Cowboys home game at AT&T Stadium, The Habitat Board of Directors has selected 40 bottles of their favorite fine wines for you to home of the world’s largest domed structure, is an experience every NFL fan should have! The savor and enjoy. This collection features wines from around the world, including wines from sights and experiences inside the stadium are endless, and with home game tickets and a VIP Australia, Spain, Chile and Argentina. You will find a wide array of old world French and Guided Tour, you can experience them all. On your VIP tour, expect to get the insider scoop Italian wines from regions like Rhone, Burgundy, Bordeaux and Barolo as well as a collection with stops at some of the most exclusive stadium spots. Your game-day Club level seats are of award-winning reds from Oregon, Washington and California. Whether it’s a bottle of 2000 located in the lower level close to the action. These seats offer some of the best sight lines in E. Guigal Hermitage Rouge Syrah from Rhone, France or a 1995 bottle of Robert Mondavi the stadium, as well as a private entrance and access to club lounges. Stay at the Omni Frisco Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley, this assemblage has something for every taste Hotel—a luxury hotel located adjacent to the 12,000-seat stadium center where the Dallas and palate.