Silent auction surprise

Webutuck elementary student Isabella Acklin, left, won a gift basket at Math & Science night by bidding $60.50. Acklin is pictured here with her mother Amanda Gallagher, Bank of Millbrook Amenia branch manager Mark Vila and Webutuck PTA president Anna Kall, right.

Photo by Nathan Miller

Silent auction surprise

AMENIA — The Webutuck PTA put on an interactive presentation of the Wizard of Oz for elementary students Wednesday, March 26 in the Webutuck High School auditorium.

PTA President Anna Kall organized the presentation that brought players from the Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck to the auditorium. Throughout the play students were brought on stage to help Dorothy, the lion, the tin man and the scarecrow in their fight against the Wicked Witch of the West.

Before the play, Bank of Millbrook Amenia branch manager Mark Vila presented a gift basket to Isabella Acklin. She won the gift basket in a silent auction at the PTA's math and science night the previous week by bidding $60.50, a smart bid that was fifty cents higher than the next highest bid.


Photo by Nathan Miller

Isabella Acklin's winning bid was printed on a fake check with the gift basket donated by the Bank of Millbrook.

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