Thank you for help with family auction | Letter

Published 4:07 pm Wednesday, September 10, 2014

I am so grateful to  everybody who helped with the August 30 auction, “An Orcas Family: 130 Years and Counting.” You know who you are and if I ever get around to writing  and mailing the thank-you notes (already addressed!), it will be but small recompense for all your hard work and altruism, both in planning, doing and buying.

Because there is still interest in purchasing a few of the  auction items that didn’t meet their reserve prices, I’m unable to state the final figure raised at the auction, but I know from the tickets sold and the proceeds that evening that it will be close to $14,000 after expenditures for the dinner, advertising and printing.

More importantly, the auction got us all (including myself) talking and thinking about the possibility of a senior campus on Orcas that would include facilities for independent living, assisted living and skilled-nursing, along with a day-care operation for staffers’ children.  I hope the Orcas Island Community Foundation will use the money, together with any subsequent additions, for this purpose. Although my small contribution could not begin to finance such  an eventuality,  everybody’s support and help with the auction reinforces my love for this community, for everyone in it, and for everybody who might want to take advantage of such facilities some day.

Jan Ferris Koltun (Titus)

Orcas Island