Online auction for refugee fund

BRATTLEBORO - The tag sale team of St. Michael’s Episcopal Church will host an online auction to benefit the St. Michael’s Interfaith Refugee Fund with bidding open from Saturday, February 19, to Sunday, February 27. The auction will raise funds to help facilitate the resettlement of Afghan people in the Brattleboro area.
Soliciting from area individuals and businesses, the auction promises a wide variety of items to bid on from gardening help to handmade patchwork quilts, gift certificates for woodworking classes at HatchSpace to antiques, music lessons at the Brattleboro Music Center to a pair of framed Chinese paintings on silk, haircuts and beauty products to a wonderful variety of gift certificates, among others.
The St. Michael’s Interfaith Refugee Auction will be online only at 32auctions.com,  a third-party auction site. One can access the auction at www.32auctions.com/stmrefugeebenefitauction. The website will ask that an account be set up using one’s email address and creating a password. There is no financial obligation involved in creating an account and it will allow browsing the auction site as items are being posted until bidding starts.
The Afghan refugee aid project is one of three major initiatives underway at St. Michael’s this year. For more information visit stmichaelsvermont.org or call (802) 254-6048, ext. 104.