Silent Auction Begins Sixth Season
Fairmount's sixth Heritage Day Silent Auction is up and running once again. Every Monday morning, bidding ends promptly at 8:30 a.m. and a new auction begins. New bidder numbers are required each year, and can be obtained from the Wheat Ridge or Crest View front desk. Current Silent Auction items are pictured online each week.
Fairmount Homes Celebrates Rural Roots on Heritage Day
View 2009 Heritage Day Photos.
On June 6, 2009, Fairmount Homes held its 5th Annual Heritage Day, an event that afforded residents, staff, and the community an opportunity to gather and celebrate their rural heritage.
Heritage Day was a day filled with plenty of old-fashioned food, fun, and fellowship as members of the community gathered on Fairmount grounds to reminisce bygone days amidst a landscape of antique cars, tractors, old farm machinery, and even a steam engine. An exhibit of particular interest this year was the 1938 Model B John Deere tractor slated for auction at Fairmount’s annual Benefit Auction and Barbecue on September 12, 2009.
The Heritage Day event began at 8 a.m. with a hearty breakfast of eggs, sausage, pancakes, hash browns, orange juice, coffee, and more. Two new breakfast items were added: homemade donuts and wet-bottom shoofly pie. Pork barbecue (fresh from cooking all night on the grill), baked potatoes, French fries (cut and fried on the spot), hot dogs, drinks, and hoagies rounded out the menu options. Dessert offerings included in-season strawberry pies by the slice or by the pie and soft ice cream, churned on-site with a hit-and-miss engine.
Heritage Day offered a variety of activities designed to appeal to every interest: quilting, stories by local storytellers, talented artisans and crafts people demonstrating their crafts, a petting zoo, antique car and carriage rides, and tours of the adjacent Muddy Creek Farm Library and Home Messenger Library.
A unique feature of Heritage Day is that it serves as the season’s final day of the very popular annual Silent Auction. From November until Heritage Day, bidders compete for beautiful antique and collectible items displayed weekly in the Wheat Ridge lobby at Fairmount. Each week bidding ends on Monday morning, except for the last week, which ends at noon on Heritage Day. The Silent Auction week ending on Heritage Day this year proved to be the best week ever, resulting in the best year to date. Yearlong Silent Auction, Delectable Collectibles, and Country Cupboard sales of $12,150 accounted for over half of Heritage Day net proceeds.
All funds raised on Heritage Day are added to Fairmount's Sharing Fund, which benefits residents who have exhausted their financial resources.
Questions? Call Peter Passage, Stewardship Director, at 717.354.1814
or e-mail peterp@fairmounthomes.org
