All proceeds from the annual silent auction go to the Tommy Tant Memorial Scholarship Fund and the Flagler County Resource Center. To date, the support has allowed over $37,000 for scholarships to local students who help organize the event and over $4,500 for the Flagler County Resource Center to provide food for children and families in need. If you would like to donate to this years auction, please contact us.

Here are the 2009 Silent Auction items:

CULINARY ART

• Personal Chef: Blue with Envy
  Gary Maresca, owner and chef of Blue at the Topaz, will come to your home to show off his culinary skills while cooking a delicious gourmet meal for ten people including 5-6 bottles of fine wine.
• Personal Chefs: Blue-Fish Culinary Dream Team
  Be the envy of your friends or spoil those closest to you, when Chris Casper, owner and chef of Flagler Fish Company, and Gary Maresca, owner and chef of Blue at Topaz come to your home and cook a delicious meal for 10 people.

INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL PACKAGES

• Gran-Pacifica: Nicaragua
  One-week stay at Gran Pacifica Resort in Nicaragua. Includes a 16x24 inch photograph taken at the resort, "A Pool With A View" by Brian Nevins.
   
• Popoyo Surf Lodge: Nicaragua
  One-week stay for two at Popoyo Surf Lodge in Nicaragua- includes accommodations, food, and airport transportation.

TRAVEL AND GOLF PACKAGE

• Hammock Beach Resort
  Enjoy three days/ two nights at this five star resort including golf.

SURF AND SKATE

• 2001 World Champion CJ Hobgood's personal surfboard
  
• World-renowned free surfer Jesse Hines autographed personal surfboard
   
• Channel Island Surfboard
  Arguably the best surfboard company in the world, with team riders including Kelly Slater and Dane Reynolds.
• Tony Hawk Autographed Skate Deck
  Own a part of skateboarding history!

ONE-OF-A-KIND SURF PRINT

• Dream Vision
  16x24 inch surf print of every surfers’ favorite moment inside the barrel, by famous surf photographer Seth Stafford, Senior Photographer at Trans-World Magazine. (Surfer Mike Gleason).

ART

• Facing Out, Looking In
  36x48 inch. Oil and Wax painting by John J. Graham, an emerging young artist from rural Mississippi now living in Palm Coast.

PRINTS

• Trumpeting Angel
  Artist Howard Finster is perhaps is the best-known self-taught artist of the modern era. He painted album covers for famous bands like REM and the Talking Heads. This is a limited edition photo-lithograph, 18x13 inch.
   
• In the Mist
  18x24 inch; Giclee limited edition print by talented artist Patrick Maxcy. Raised in Flagler Beach, Patrick now has successful solo and group shows worldwide, book and magazine features and is represented by numerous galleries throughout the US.

COSMETICS

• The Most Beautiful Smile Award
  DRS. LACY, OLSON, & MAHONEY PA. Two In-house Teeth Whitening Gift Certificates to be auctioned individually.
   
• How Do They Look So Young?
  DRS. LACY, OLSON, & MAHONEY PA. Botox treatment gift certificate.

Sample items from past auctions:

• Popoyo Surf Lodge Nicaragua (one week, valued at $2600)
• Surfboard autographed by Damien Hobgood
• Nicaragua Surf Prints by Brian Nevins
• Painting by John Graham (valued at $3000)
• Photolithograph by Howard Finster (valued at $1200)
• Channel Islands Double Helix Surfboard
• Gran Pacifica Resort Nicaragua (one week, valued at $1000)