Funding the fight: Annual auction raises more than $170,000 for local cancer patients
Saturday’s CBCF live auction, led by Chuck Yarbro Jr., sold items such as a signed football helmet, short vacation getaways and fresh beef to benefit local patients fighting cancer.
Rebecca Pettingill/Columbia Basin Herald
Rungnapa Chuanarom and Brad Ballinger look at items in the silent auction at the Country Sweethearts Benefit Auction on Saturday.
The 13th annual Country Sweethearts Benefit Auction was well attended Saturday at the Grant County Fairgrounds despite the removal of 10 tables due to Department of Health restrictions.
Columbia Basin Cancer Foundation Executive Director Angel Ledesma gives a short speech right before the live auction Saturday at the Country Sweethearts Benefit Auction.
MOSES LAKE – The Columbia Basin Cancer Foundation’s 13th annual Country Sweethearts Benefit Auction returned in-person Saturday, after the COVID-19 pandemic caused the event to be virtual last year, and raised more than $170,000.
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