Post-sale update: $334,000 was raised on Friday and Saturday, April 4 & 5, for the work of Mennonite Central Committee.  Thank-you to all who attended and donated time, money, and talents to the effort!
Here are some more details:
--Quilt Auction  $152,845
--Country Auction $42,245
--Food Stands $82,000

Country Auction
--An 1851 Gold Coin brought $1050
--Allgyer Marble Roller  $1125
--John Deere Tractor  3,650

Quilt Auction
--23 quilts brought over $1000
--The highest selling quilt was #340  California Nights selling for $3,400
--The House of Bangledesh Quilt generated $18,000 in donations for
    housing projects.
--The replica of the meat canner generated $4,500 for food projects.

Join the festivities next year on April 3 and 4, 2009 at the Farm Show Complex, Harrisburg.  Come for the food, bid on items at the Quilt Auction and Country Auction, shop at the Ten Thousand Villages booth, flower booth and other artisan displays.  Children will enjoy activities in the Children's area including an auction just for them!

Since 1957, all sale day proceeds, nearly $11 million to date benefit the worldwide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee which include aid to the victims of poverty and other man-made and natural disasters.