Mental Health America of Licking County’s Executive Director and inveterate sports fan, Paddy Kutz was so excited to secure a donation for their upcoming Java & Jazz benefit auction from Newark native and Texas Rangers pitcher Derek Holland.
“There’s a lot of people after these,” she said. “They’ve been holding them for us under lock and key.”
The autographed size 11 Under Armour baseball cleats are just one of items up for auction at the March 5th event taking place at the Reese Center on the Newark Campus.
In addition to the more than 70 items to be auctioned off, each guest will participate in a drawing for a chance at a 2011 Toyota Camry courtesy of Coughlin Automotive of Newark.
According to Kutz, the auction is a critical fundraiser for her agency.
“There is so much uncertainty right now about money. The only thing that is certain is that people need our help and we have to do everything we can to make sure we are still here to answer their calls.”
Tickets for the event are $25 in advance and $30 at the door. They can also be purchased online at www.mhalc.org.
More information about some of the items up for bid can be found at www.javaandjazz2011.blogspot.com.
Mental Health America of Licking County, an affiliate of Mental Health America, is a partner agency of the United Way and the Community Mental Health & Recovery Board.
New Orleans in early January sounded like the ideal post-holidays getaway, but then there was that project due at work and not quite enough left in the rainy day fund.
Now, thanks to Paddy Kutz, MHA's own ultimate sports fan, you can make your friends and neighbors green with envy as you have all the evidence you will need to make them think you went.
Included in the package is everything from the official souvenir program, a pair of collectible tickets, a pair of T-shirts, an official OSU Sugar Bowl hoodie and a pair of bam bams.
Also in the package are next day editions of the Times-Picayune, Newark Advocate, the OSU Lantern and the sports section from USA Today all trumpeting the Buckeye victory.
And don't you know that while you were in New Orleans you also had time to take in a basketball game between the New Orleans Hornets and the Golden State Warriors and you will have the tickets and game day program to prove it.
But it wasn't all about sports. Between games you had time to explore one of the country's most colorful cities including the storied Bourbon Street where you collected more than 20 sets of beads! (We don't even want to know what you had to do to get those....)
Bragging rights in a box are available to the high bidder at this year's Java & Jazz.
We are pleased to announce that, in addition to donating an electric grill to our Java & Jazz benefit auction, The Energy Cooperative has agreed to co-sponsor the event.
Confirmation came earlier this afternoon and Paddy Kutz, Mental Health America's Executive Director, couldn't be happier.
"We are so blessed to have so many supporters in the business community who see value in what we are doing and who continue to support us. The Energy Cooperative has been a generous supporter of MHA through the years."
