Benefit Dinner

It's been a long time since we have updated our blog.  This will be the first of four new posts.  A lot has happened in the last two months.
  We are going to start off with the Benefit Dinner held June 15th for our Family.  The Event was held at the White Pine High School. Members of our community put together this amazing benefit dinner in just over one month.  There were countless donations and time that went into the planning and carrying out of this benefit dinner. People were very kind and extremely generous. Even businesses through out our town were extremely supportive. Garnet Mercantile ran a special if you purchased a ticket to the Smith's benefit dinner you would get a % off that days purchase. Everyone was so nice and so very helpful in putting out the word and helping to sell tickets.  The local news paper,"The Ely Times", interviewed the Smiths.  You can find the interview article Here. The local radio donated some air time to advertise for the benefit dinner.   They sold 500 tickets, and just under 400 people attend. AMAZING!!!!! We were blown away by the turn out. Our community did all of this for us even though they knew we would be moving to Las Vegas.  We are in awe of this wonderful community. The dinner they served that night included: ham & pineapple, green beans with bacon and almonds,baked potato's, and for dessert they served homemade cupcakes.  Yummy! Chad said, "It was all Fabulous."
That night they had two auctions; a kids auction, and an adult auction. The kids auction had bikes and toys of all kinds.  The adult auction had everything from furniture to vacations.  A local store donated a recliner, we had two vacations one to Montana, and one to Maui. We had some local artist that donated some art, and lots of wonderul handmade crafts. Connie Muir played the piano and Cathy Tuker was the DJ/Announcer. It was UN believable!
We are just so grateful we have been able to be apart of such a wonderful, kind, loving, and supportive community.
We felt so loved and appreciate all the support, time and effort that went into this amazing benefit dinner. Thank you all so much we are going to miss you!
Chad, Becky, Aleah and Blake Smith

Our awesome loving supportive Community.

Some of the items being auctioned that night.

Some Yummy Cupcakes