No. 21 Vol. 1
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Eleven Hour Rescue Virtual Auction
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by Elsie Walker t’s an auction for a great cause and you don’t even have to leave your home to participate. It’s the annual winter Eleventh Hour Rescue auction which features a variety of items being auctioned off to help animals. There’s no overhead to the auction; all auctioned items are donated so all the money will go to the veterinary bills of the rescue, which in 2024 were $526, 000. Recently, Jeannie Patsarikas, of Long Valley, tricky tray/ auction team lead, and Kathy Dolce of West Caldwell, sponsorships and grants, talked about the auction and the work of the rescue. Its adoptable pets can be seen on its website at www.ehrevents.org The virtual auction opens on February 15th at 9am and runs to Friday, February 21st at 4pm. It is held via a Facebook Group. To join the Facebook group for the auction, people access it once the auction starts through a link on an Eleventh Hour Rescue webpage: https://www. ehrevents.org Once in the Facebook group, people will see pictures of each item and a description of it plus the opening and incremental bid for it. In the comments area, a person puts their bid. Those who bid are notified if someone else puts in a higher bid. After the auction closes, items won can be picked up at the organization’s Roxbury Thrift Store and Adoption Center in the Roxbury Mall on either February 23rd
Penny, a dog Eleventh Hour rescued and cared for and who found a forever home.
Mack and a friend, two long-time residents at Eleventh Hour waiting to find forever homes.
from 12pm – 3pm or on February 26th from 6:30 – 7:30pm. While items are still coming in, Patsarikas noted those that have come in so far. They include a Bradford Portrait and Overnight Stay at the Opus Westchester (a $5000 value), $1000 Gift Certificate towards a 10+ day Regent Seven Seas Cruise, $200 Gift Certificate towards a 7+ day Royal Caribbean Cruise, 60 Minute Treatment at any Massage Envy, four tickets to the Sterling Hill Underground Mine Tour, a Kindle, Amazon Gift Cards, Longhorn Restaurant Gift Card, Clinique Makeup and Skincare, appliances (Ninja Air Fryer, Blender, Coffee Maker, Chopper), four Zipline Course Passes ( includes over 30 ziplines). wine and liquor, one- year Black Card Membership to Planet Fitness (valued at $300), and family fun games and activities (e.g., Pickleball Set). Also, donations of auction items are still being taken. Patsarikas
shared, “folks who want to donate can email me at trickytray@ehrdogs.org. Then, I can work with them individually as to how they can get their donation to us. [Also,] here is our Amazon wish list link: https://www. amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ l s / 2 N E 4 B 1 C S 1 H B 0 T/ ref=nav_wishlist_lists_2. Their order will be mailed directly to me. “ Patsarikas noted the pictures of the items shown during the auction and shared, “David Warner [of David Warner Photography at www. davidwarnerphotos.com] donates his time and talent and photographs all our auction items. He does a beautiful job! “ Patsarikas notes that she enjoys “watching the bidding wars” during the auction while Dolce enjoys “participating in the bidding wars.” Patsarikas noted that she also enjoys seeing people bid higher than an item’s stated worth because they want to support the rescue and “working with the [auction] team”. She
also noted that the auction is “ lots of work”. Of course, the bottom line is that the auction will be helping the animals rescued by 11th hour rescue. In 2024, the organization found loving homes for 14 small animals, 655 cats and 755 dogs. The latter includes Penny, whose story Dolce shared. “We discovered after she came to us that she had a heart condition called Pulmonary Valve Stenosis that caused her to pass out with even minimal activity. She required extremely costly surgery, so we turned to social media to get the word out and Penny found a life-saving benefactor. She has since been adopted and is living her best life,” Dolce shared. Dolce noted there are some long-term residents of the rescue waiting years for a home, like Mack. “Mack has been with us six years-a volunteer favorite. The kennel has about 30 longerterm resident dogs who have a team of dedicated continued on page 2