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{ The Live Auction }

	{ 1 } Shop the Farmer’s Market with Lynne Rossetto Kasper Lynne Rossetto Kasper, host of MPR’s The Splendid Table, will take you and five of your friends shopping at the St. Paul Farmer’s Market on August 2, 2008 at 8:00 a.m. Start the day by joining Lynne for breakfast at one of her favorite haunts near the market. Then head to the Farmer’s Market where Lynne will help expand your culinary horizons by encouraging you to try out new ingredients from the locally-grown produce available there. [Cost of breakfast not included.] Donor(s): Lynne Rossetto Kasper Value: Priceless
	{ 2 } A Week in Jackson Hole and Four Tickets to the Grand Teton Music Festival You’ll spend the week of July 27-August 2, 2008 at the guest house of Glen and Marilyn Nelson: Bloomerhas (Flower Garden House), a private, three-bedroom getaway at the foot of the Teton range. The residence has a full kitchen, living room, game room, hot tub and comes with a “house bug” — a Volkswagen Beetle that sports flower hubcaps. Includes four tickets to the internationally renowned Grand Teton Music Festival on August 2, 2008.[Sunday, July 27 to Sunday, August 3, 2008.] Donor(s): Glen Nelson & Marilyn Carlson Nelson Value: Priceless
	{ 3 } VocalEssence England Tour for Two Britannia rules! Join the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers on their January 2009 tour to the United Kingdom. The winning bidder of this item will receive airfare, hotel accommodations, breakfast, ground transportation for two and admittance to all of the Ensemble Singers concerts! The tour will include stops in London, Cambridge, Oxford, Birmingham and Manchester including concerts with the BBC Singers and at historic King’s College. Donor(s): VocalEssence Value: $10,000
	{ 4 } Private Jet Flight for 8 with JetChoice Plan an amazing getaway! Up to eight very fortunate people will fly in the lap of luxury anywhere in the continental United States with JetChoice. JetChoice is the leading provider of private jet memberships to many of today’s top executives and provides the safest, most reliable private jet service anywhere. Board your flight at St. Paul’s Holman Field without the all of the usual airport hassles. Then sit back and relax as you’re pampered in style the JetChoice way. Choose your destination and dates; travel for the day or book your return flight for later. [Must book flight at least 14 days in advance. Expires May 3, 2009. Continental U.S. only.] Donor(s): JetChoice Value: $35,000
	{ 5 } Department 56 Venetian Christmas by Anna Griffin Celebrate an unforgettable Christmas this year when your home is enhanced by Anna Griffin’s rich and elegant “Venetian Christmas” line of decor.Department 56 will deliver a pre-lit 9-foot Christmas tree and an amazing collection of Anna Griffin’s hand-decorated European glass ornaments, etched Venetian glass icicles, gilded cherubs, and red flocked damask ribbon. Includes matching antique-reproduction gold tabletop cherub candelabra, a beautiful velvet-trimmed damask print table runner, and a decorative ice bucket with gold accents. Donor(s): Department 56 Value: $8,060
	{ 6 } Prairie Home Companion Walk-On Role Have you ever dreamed about making it big in the theater? How about putting your talent on the radio in front of 4 million listeners? The winner of this amazing auction item will have a walk-on role in one of Garrison Keillor’s hilarious sketches on “A Prairie Home Companion.” Will you be a villain, a cowpoke or a shill for the Catchup Advisory Board? Only Garrison Keillor knows. [Saturday date to be mutually determined. Role to be determined by Prairie Home Productions.] Donor(s): Garrison Keillor Value: Priceless
	{ 8 } Musicale and Dinner for Eight David and Ann Buran will host a spectacular dinner for eight at their lovely home, featuring a delightful menu prepared by Chef Jon Cranney. Following dinner, soprano extraordinaire Maria Jette will present a program of British art songs and ditties with Philip Brunelle at the piano. With these marvelous performers, hosts and chef, this will be an evening your friends will long remember! If you wish to close by singing “Land of Hope and Glory” (Pomp and Circumstance) they will be glad to accommodate with words for all to sing. [Date to be mutually agreed upon.] Donor(s): David & Ann Buran; Jon Cranney & Katherine Ferrand; Maria Jette; Philip Brunelle Value: Priceless