WE HAVE SET THE DATE FOR SUBASTA!!!!!

Come join the fun.  Subasta 2009  will be held Sunday, December 6 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in Marina de La Paz. This is the 21st anniversary of the annual auction to benefit needy children of La Paz. While the event is run by Fundación Ayuda Niños La Paz, A.C. (FANLAP), Club Cruceros de La Paz, A.C. continues to be a main sponsor of this event.

We accept articles for boats, homes, clothing, or any other “treasure” you would like to donate to the cause.  We need volunteers weeks before the event to price clothing, make minor repairs to donated items and separate articles to be auctioned from those which will be sold.  The day of the auction, we need helpers to work in the booths: the bazaar, the beer and soda booth, the bake sale, bargain table, and the cash drawers where pesos and dollars are exchanged for scrip.

If you are planning to visit La Paz, perhaps you can find a small space in your trunk or bilge for some of the small items we like to add to the 300-400 Christmas presents given to the children we work with, for example:  pencils, pens and colored markers; tooth brushes and toothpaste; shampoo and hand lotion; socks and underwear; cars and dinosaurs; and Barbie and Bratz dolls and doll clothes (we have a bag full of  donated dolls as bare as the day they were born!)

Please bring your donations to Marina de La Paz office, Legaspy and Topete, during normal office hours or contact us at
121 2166 or email Marie Carpenter at mariecarpenter50@yahoo.com.   

We plan to have our new cookbook, Recipes 4 Scholarships, available for sale at Subasta too - all proceeds support the FANLAP Junior and Senior High School Scholarship Program.  For information about the cookbook, email Barb at  sv_philosea@yahoo.com.