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2 night stay and InnSeason Resort, $200 in Loon Mountain Gift Cards, Woodstock Station Gift Cards and 2 lift tickets to Cannon Mountain. Value $1100

Gift Certificate to Jennifer's Color Bar, Athena, Active Zen Yoga, Rebecca's Aesthetic Studio, Healing Arts Massage, Pilates, and more! $1500 Creations by Collis wedding and event. This hostess basket with gift certificates including party dinner table set up is one that needs to be scooped up! Total value: $2000

Hi-Gloss Boat Restoration donating a 1 TB PS4 Pro with Call of Duty Modern warfare included, extra controller in camo and a 43" 4k TV. Value $634.

We are super excited to have you be the Presenting Sponsor for the 2019 Auction!

Independence Financial Advisors donated a NH Fisher Cats Corporate Suite! 20 Suite Tickets & $ Parking Passes to the NH Fisher Cats 2020 Season. Includes food buffet, alcoholic beverages, and the ice cream sundae bar in the IFA Luxury double suite. Value $1500.

The Belknap Merry Misfits Pub Mania Team donates a gift basket with lots of goodies: A Loon Photo by Charles Gangas who is a nationally renowned bird photographer who also leads international wildlife photography tours. Value $600. In addition, they have donated $25 gift cards from 405 Pub and Grill, UNO Pizzeria, El Jimador, Pizza Express, The Lakeside, Patrick's Pub and Eatery, Fratello's Italian Grille, Chili's, the Wine'ing Butcher, and The Common Man worth another $250.

Dan Mack and the Michael Vincent Band are donating a private performance by the band for a house party/backyard bbq on a date of your choosing.  $750 value. Dan Mack CREA - Cuzin Richard Entertainment 93 High st #1 Portsmouth, NH 03802 603 455 5930

The certificate entitles the bearer to the preparation and execution of 2 (two) Last Wills and Testaments including Durable Powers of Attorney and New Hampshire Advance Directives ( or $500 towards of other estate planning legal services). Redeemable at the Law Offices of Normandin, Cheney & O'Neil, PLLC, 213 Union Avenue, Laconia, NH 03247, Telephone 603-524-4380. Services to be provided by Attorney Kaitlin M. O'Neil.

This is a Annual Float membership at The Summit at Four Seasons Resort with a 2 bedroom suite at the The Summit Resort. The Summit’s standard 2 Bedroom Suites offer spacious accommodations that sleep up to 6 people. With a queen sized bed in the master bedroom, a guest bedroom furnished with 2 twin sized beds and a queen sized pullout sofa in the living room, these units provide plenty of space at a great value. Room amenities include a full kitchen, in-room washer and dryer, an electric fireplace in the living area, a Jacuzzi tub in the master bathroom, TV and a relaxing balcony. There is a Summit Weeks Calendar that you can refer to when booking a reservation. Flex week owners, such as yourselves, are permitted to book any week that is not grayed out. Call the Reservation Department to confirm. The owner will have access to the daily use of amenities 365 days a year free of charge included in the membership. The Summit Resort offers a large amenities packages to help ensure all guests enjoy their time in the lakes region. Resort Amenities include: Indoor Pool with slide, Outdoor Pool, Roman Spa & Saunas, Free use of Health Club and Racquetball Courts, Walking/Snowshoe Trails, Children’s Playground, PlayStation 4 Gaming System in Lobby. Click here to view Hospitality Amenities: WiFi, in-room, Laundry Facilities, Bar Facilities. Please be aware that is this a contracted membership with an annual fee of $924. The Tokarz Family generously paid for the current 2019/2020 yearly membership fee. You would be taking over the time share contract membership and would be responsible for the following years membership fee. The $200 one time transfer fee will be paid for by the Tokarz family! Approximate Value $2000.

By JANICE BEETLE, For The Laconia Daily Sun Nov 21, 2019 Updated Nov 29, 2019 LACONIA — In 1976, when Warren Bailey was starting his career as a morning disc jockey at WLNH, his mentor taught him something that has since changed the lives of thousands in the Lakes Region. “He told me, 'The microphone is a powerful tool. Do something meaningful with it,’” Warren recalled. It wasn’t a message Bailey knew how to act on at 24. Six years later, he knocked on the door of an apartment building to let the resident know he’d won a prize for displaying a WLNH bumper sticker on his car. There was no furniture inside. A baby was lying on the bare wooden floor, wrapped in a blanket. Bailey was confused, thinking perhaps they were just moving in, before he realized he was looking poverty in the eye for the first time. Bailey heard his mentor’s mantra in his head, and understood what he needed to do. He founded the Greater Lakes Region Children’s Auction that year, using the power of his microphone to raise money for children and families in need. Broadcasting on WLNH from an unheated van on North Main Street, Bailey raised $2,100, auctioning off two truckloads of donated items. Over time, area residents added to the auction, creating an event that helps sustain 62 area nonprofits. The auction now involves thousands, some who give up a week’s vacation to take part. The items auctioned are so plentiful that a nonprofit board now governs the event. In 2018, the auction raised $580,584. “It’s overwhelming,” said Bailey, who gets weepy as he tells auction stories from nearly four decades. They are the stories of the people who have helped the effort grow, been served and now give back. “It takes your breath away,” he added. “The volunteers are there every year.” Bailey joined after working in radio in Massachusetts and New Hampshire for several years. “I fell in love with the area and the station. The local owner and our wonderful staff was there for me right from the beginning,” he said. After leaving WLNH in 2001, Bailey co-owned a radio station and later moved to television and digital sales. In 2015, he launched his own media-buying business, WB Media 1. Bailey will make his traditional appearance at the auction during the 38th annual event, to be held Dec. 3-7 at the Belknap Mall. Bailey looks forward to returning to hear stories from children who were helped long ago and now give back in gratitude. One is a young girl turned away from the auction site 25 years ago, accompanied by her crying mother, deemed unworthy of assistance due to an addiction and sent away by a since-excused volunteer. Bailey followed them out and gave the mother $20, saying, “Promise me you will do something for your daughter with this.” The girl, now a grown woman and paralegal in Boston, recently attended the auction. She asked for Bailey personally, thanked him for the help he offered her late mother, and handed him a check for $1,000. “That’s the kind of impact that the auction has had,” Bailey said. “And that’s just one powerful story.” When it started, Bailey asked everyone he met to listen to his story of the auction for 10 minutes, building steady and unexpected support and growth. In 1998, Terry Hicks became the new general manager for Metrocast and offered to televise the event, previously broadcast only on the radio. Around the same time, businessman David McGreevy spearheaded the building of an elaborate set for the auction. Alan MacRae, who worked for the telephone company NYNEX, made it possible for the auction to have four phones instead of one. Now, there is an entire phone bank of volunteers. R.J. and Bridget Harding, owners of the Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion, offered their entire staff and equipment for the week of the event, starting a tradition that continues. Most recently, Patrick’s Pub & Eatery created Pub Mania, a 24-hour event that has raised nearly $2 million over 10 years. “The generosity of the community blows my mind,” Bailey said. “There’s no shortage of Christmas spirit at the Children’s Auction.” The Children’s Auction runs Dec. 3-7 at the Belknap Mall. The community is encouraged to bring an item to donate, or come to bid. Visit www.ChildrensAuction.com to learn more. To nominate a Children’s Auction champion, send suggestions to Jennifer Kelley at Jenn@ChildrensAuction.com.

LACONIA — If it’s the holiday season in the Lakes Region, then it’s time for the Children’s Auction, an annual celebration of giving in support of our youngest neighbors. The 38th Annual Greater Lakes Region Children’s Auction, which sells donated items and then gives the proceeds to local nonprofits that serve children, will begin on Tuesday, Dec. 3, and conclude on Saturday, Dec. 7. During the week, the auction will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and 6 to 9 p.m. On the final day, the auction will start at 9 a.m. and finish at 1 p.m. There are many ways to follow the auction. It will be broadcast live on 104.9 The Hawk and WEEI 101.5 FM Sports Radio, on Atlantic Broadband Channel 12 and LRPA Channel 25, online at live.lrpa.org, and it will be streamed in high definition at laconiadailysun.com. The stream will also be available through the Children’s Auction and LRPA Facebook pages. There’s no higher definition than seeing something in person, and this year is the first in a long time where the auction, taking place at the Belknap Mall, can accommodate a large audience. In order to make sure that all of the proceeds of the auction go to nonprofits, the all-volunteer event has always sought a vacant space to borrow. It takes a lot of square footage to put on the auction, and there hasn’t been much room left for viewers in recent years. That changes this year, as the auction will be taking over the cavernous space that was recently vacated by the Peeble’s department store. “It’s very exciting. We haven’t had this much space since we were at the Lake Opechee Conference Center. We’re excited to have the public come and enjoy it,” said Jaimie Sousa, president of the Children’s Auction board. “We used to have a lot more seating for people to come and watch. They would come and bid on things while they were there and looking at it in person.” The extra space is also making it possible to welcome other community organizations to set up, such as a barbershop that will cut hair for donations to the auction, and for nonprofits to set up tables and spread the word about the work that they do. “We also have bigger doors for bigger items to come in,” Sousa said. “We could always use more items. People always like to wait until we’re on location, so we are always a little bit slow on Tuesday.” Get a sneak peek at the set by dropping off an item for the auction on Monday, from 9 to 3 p.m. Broad impact It seems that, every year since it started, the Children’s Auction has broken the prior year’s record. Last year, the amount raised was $580,584, which was distributed to more than 50 local organizations within 60 days of the event. Daisy Blaisdell, interim director of the Twin Rivers Interfaith Food Pantry in Franklin, said her organization received a $5,000 grant last year, which was “huge” for the pantry. “It enabled us to start a program that we had wanted to start for quite some time,” she said. The program they started is called Feed the Need. “It is a program that supplies supplemental weekend food for hungry kiddos in the Franklin School District.” The Food Pantry was able to get the program up and running by April, and by the end of the last school year, the program had helped 133 individual children, who access to food a cumulative 568 times. So far, Feed the Need has provided more than 4,000 meals to Franklin children. “The money does go a long way, because we shop at the New Hampshire Food Bank for a lot of stuff that we’re sending out, and Hannaford in Franklin has been very supportive,” Blaisdell said. “We are just grateful. We would not have been able to do that without [Children’s Auction] funding.” The mentoring program Big Brothers Big Sisters of New Hampshire had just come to Laconia last year, said Casey Caster, vice-president of community relations, and the $10,000 grant they received helped them hit the ground running. “It was incredible to come into the Lakes Region, not be there really long, and get funding from the Children’s Auction. It has helped us to make more matches and ramp up our expansion,” Caster said. So far, her organization has matched up 18 local children with local adults who have committed to mentoring them. Caster said that the auction also invited Big Brothers Big Sisters to set up a table during the event to attract more mentors. “I was blown away by how much they raise, and how big it is,” Caster said of the auction. “It’s a really unique thing that you guys have there, it’s really neat.” Another new beneficiary of the Children’s Auction last year was TIGER, a traveling group based at Plymouth State University that performs educational theater for school children around New England. Trish Lindberg, artistic director and co-founder of the troupe, said the plays teach children about topics ranging from kindness and resilience to the hazards of opioids. “The auction was awesome to us because they gave us a grant so that we could go to schools that couldn’t afford us to come,” she said. In addition to the funding, she said she also appreciated the way beneficiaries were treated. “Going to the award ceremony last year, it was such a great experience. They made you feel that you were valued. Many of these organizations that were awarded money from the Children’s Auction, we quietly go about our work in our own little bubbles. To have one larger organization, community-based, to say that our work is valued, is a real boost to us,” Lindberg said.

Flamingos aren't usually the first creatures that come to mind when people think about Christmas, but they are the inspiration for a new fundraising idea designed to benefit the annual Lakes Region Children’s Auction. Mitch Hamel, a broker at Verani Realty in Belmont and member of that business’s Verani Realty Reindeer team that is raising money for the Children’s Auction, said he recently drove through the town of Weare, where “years ago there was a group that used to put pink flamingos in people’s yards.” Not real birds, of course, but the plastic variety that some people see as the epitome of tackiness.