NEW HOPE — The Lambertville Area Education Foundation (LAEF) will hold its 11th annual Auction and Benefit Party at the Eagle Fire Company Banquet Hall, New Hope, on Friday (March 24), beginning at 6 p.m.
The event will feature silent and live auctions, plus food and drink provided by area businesses.
Auction items will include a wide variety of artwork by many area artists; fine jewelry; gift certificates for area stores, restaurants, and services; sports tickets and memorabilia; and vacation lodgings in Vermont, near Disney World and on the Jersey Shore.
Remaining tickets to the traditionally sold-out event are on sale for $50 per person; contact LAEF President Jill Myers at [email protected].
All proceeds from the event will be used to support “innovative programs for students attending Lambertville Public School, West Amwell Township School, Stockton Borough School and South Hunterdon Regional High School,” said a spokesman.
THOSE unable to participate in the Friday event can make donations to LAEF online. Visit: www.laef-for-the-kids.org and click on the green “make a donation” button. In addition, join the mailing list by clicking on the “sign up for our newsletter” button on the home page. And, “like” us on FACEBOOK.
Some recent grants received include: iPad pilot programs for WAES and LPS; Unity Day (day of learning about tolerance, bullying, harassment, discrimination) at SHRHS; third annual Festival of the Arts at SHRHS; McCarter Theater’s YouthInk at SHRHS; Spanish multicultural program for SBS; marimba for SHRHS; planetarium trip for all three elementary school sixth grades; Tubanos for World Music Drumming at LPS; Colonial basket-making workshop for fourth grades at LPS and WAES, etc.
The Foundation welcomes contacts from community members who would like to contribute money, goods or time to the organization. The foundation’s board seeks suggestions about contacts for corporate sponsorship of its local fundraising events. Potential supporters should contact Jill Myers at [email protected].
The LAEF, founded in 1992, is a nonprofit, volunteer-run organization dedicated to benefiting students in the area’s four school districts. The organization’s mission is to raise funds and broker community support for projects that enrich the educational experience of students in the four schools; virtually 100 percent of the Foundation’s income is expended in grants for that purpose.
— Ruth Luse

