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WHAT: Friends of Ross Library Radio Auction

WHEN: 9:30 a.m.-noon Friday, Sept. 12

WHERE: WBPZ Radio Station

HOW: Listen and call 748-4038 or 748-4039

LOCK HAVEN - Hand-made quilts, ice fishing and spring gobbler hunting trips, books, movie rentals, local artists' works, gift certificates, airplane and sailboat rides and tickets to athletic events at Penn State, Lock Haven University and Central Mountain High School.

Those are but a few of the items the highest bidder will take home after the bidding ends during the Friends of the Ross Library's first ever radio auction next week.

There are automotive supplies, haircuts, pizzas, candles, flower arrangements, DVD and CD players, rugs, a collector's edition model tractor and an Atlantic City bus trip.

The list goes on and on, with more than 160 items valued at over $9,000 going on the auction block from 9:30 a.m. until noon Friday, Sept. 12, on Lock Haven Radio Station WBPZ.

All of the items were donated by area individuals and businesses. The list will be published in Wednesday's Express.

The Friends are excited about this new kind of fundraiser, which they hope will help them raise enough money to install more than two dozen new windows in the older portion of the library on West Main Street. Project cost is about $26,000.

Some of the more unique items, including two hand-made quilts, are on display at the Ross Library. One of the quilts - using the Underground Railroad Pattern - was made by Martha Hershberger and is valued at $400. The other, the work of Eleanor Kodish, is valued at $155.

The group will offer "early bidding" from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday by calling the radio station.

On Friday morning, items will be organized in groups with bidding completed on items in each group within 30 minutes and those items sold before moving on to the next group of items.

Those who are successful in their bids may pick up their items at the Ross Library after 1 p.m. the day of the auction.