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Chair Auction Raises Cash for Honor Flight Southwest Minnesota

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The chair auction went extremely well this year and we raised $3,011 for the Southwest Minnesota Honor Flight! The Globe’s going to kick in extra, so the total amount of the donation will be $4,000! Thank you to everyone who donated!

Java Nau five o’clock chair: $350

Avera Star Trek chair: $125

Trends armed forces chair: $200

Quality Auto Body Semper Fi chair: $250

New Dawn parrot chair: $310

Gary’s Painting and Hardwood Lumber Betty Boop chair: $175

Lamperts’ Cookie Monster chair: $150

Erwin & Son Painting Twins chair: $475

Mike Woll Investments Gophers chair: $250

Turbes Drealan Kvilhaug Mammen and Co. music chair: $200

Windsurfing medal and carved frame: $300

And this will be our last post tonight, though I’m still at the Regatta. Sorry about the technical difficulties–you will get to see the photos I took at a later time!

And don’t forget, there will be video and audio as soon as I can manage it!

Chair Donations for the Honor Flight!

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The first round of chair donations is in–the totals people donated to the chairs in order to "vote" for them as their favorites.

Java Nau’s 5 p.m. chair: $78

Mike Woll’s Gopher chair: $54.82

Turbes’ music chair: $52.00

Quality Auto Body’s semper fi chair: $15.25

Erwin Painting’s Twins chair: $9.48

Lampert’s Cookie Monster chair: $6.25

Avera’s Star Trek chair: $5.45

New Dawn’s parrots chair: $2

Gary’s Painting’s Betty Boop chair: $1.50

Trends military chair: $1.25

All the chairs looked absolutely fantastic this year! You can see pictures of them all here.

We got quite a bit of money this year from the votes, which will go to the next Honor Flight! Many thanks to everyone who donated!

Soon there’ll be the chair auction, and I’ll put those totals up too here, as soon as I can. Still no luck with the pictures.

Pain, Desertion and the Letters of Famous Persons

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Think your office chair is uncomfortable?

Would you like to sit on a cactus, sharpened pencils (pointed rumpwards), melted cheese, a steel beanbag, or a bench specifically designed to be uncomfortable?

No?

Then you might not like any of these Chairs of Great Pain (like the one at left, taken from the TechEBlog), but they are fun to look at in a Schadenfreude-filled way.

If you’d rather see images of a deserted town, check out Bodie, Calif., one of the most interesting ghost towns in America. Though the photos aren’t quite as intriguing as those of Chernobyl and Prypiat, they are very cool.

And if you’re feeling more literary, check out this gallery of letters by famous people, called Letters of Note. Make sure you’re ready for the invective of Hunter S. Thompson, the giggle-worthy sense of humor of JFK and the descriptive profanity of the South Park authors, if those are the letters you choose to read. But there’s plenty of historical interest here as well.

Regatta: The Chair Auction

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Results are back from the chair auction! Proceeds will go to the Lake Okabena Improvement Association for eco-friendly pet waste disposal units along the shore of Lake Okabena.

New Dawn, Inc chair, painted by Andrew Buntjer and Linda Reasonover (the one with the fish): $150

Erwin’s Painting chair, painted by Lisa Wills (the one with the stars and stripes): $200

Worthington’s Hot Country US104, painted by Hannah Van Grouw (the one with the US104 logo): $175

Java Nau’s chair, painted by Sue Nau (the one with dancing coffee): $110

Avera Worthington Specialty Clinics chair, painted by Hannah Van Grouw (the one with the blue flower): $200

Worthington Fire Department’s chair, painted by Meghan Calvin (the one with the fire dog): $125

Trends chair, painted by Hannah Van Grouw (the one with Harley-Davidson on it): $150

Gary’s Painting and Hardwood Lumber chair, painted by Denise Erwin (the one with the tree): $350

Mike Woll Investments chair, painted by Mike Woll (the one with the M&M): $150

Lampert’s chair, painted by Nate Einck (the one with Chairy): $175

For a total of $1,785! And that doesn’t include the other donations made, both put into the jars and also additional corporate donations.