Primavera School Silent Auction

There have been many exciting things to discover as I have learned more about the Tri-cities area. With our oldest getting ready to go to Kindergarten next year, learning about local schools has been at the top of my list. And there are so many great schools there! Rob and I really value education, so finding just the right school is important to us. Each school is different, each has a different style of educating.

Enough blabbering. As I was researching the different schools, I discovered Primavera School. I have yet to enter the doors, but their web site is very informative about their education style, which I like, and...well, we'll see what happens with us and how we educate our kids. It's also a private school which relies on tuition and donations in order to provide the kind of educational experience they want for their students.


When I found out about their silent auction that happened on Nov 6, I thought that it would be a great opportunity to help the school out and begin to get our name out in the community. With the help of a new friend in Prescott, Melissa Tenney, we put together a gift basket with a substantial gift certificate inside to go towards a complete orthodontic treatment.

Isn't the basket beautiful? (Melissa gets total credit for that.) Well, sadly, it didn't receive one bid. But I was also told that the minimum bid was set at 1/2 the value of the gift. I guess our gift certificate was too substantial! Oh, well. Better luck next year. Primavera School will be doing another silent auction later in the year and they will be glad to give it a second chance! (With a lower minimum bid...)

I sure hope, for their sake, we can figure out how to make it successful in the future!

Update: I just found out today (Mon, Nov 16), that this particular auction raised $20,000 for the school. Isn't that awesome! It looks like the auction was a success.