“AFTER HOURS” DESSERT RECEPTION AND AUCTIONS FANTASTIC & FUN!


Te headline auction item this year was a Trebro Autostack II harvester, which was auctioned off courtesy of Trebro Turf Equipment, with a starting bid of $345,000 USD, and a portion of the proceeds going directly to TLI.


New this year, was online bidding conducted through BidPal, a mobile auction platform designed specifically for non- profit organizations. Bidding began December 15 and continued through Wednesday, February 14. Tat’s when many attendees flocked to the TLI Reception to enjoy some after-dinner Valentine’s Day desserts with friends and family. And, through the auctions, to raise money for TLI research, scholarships, education and PR initiatives to help promote our outreach efforts to build greater awareness about the many benefits of natural grass.


Te desserts were excellent, but even sweeter was the generosity of the TPI members: those who donated the auction items, those who bid on them, and those who donated without placing a bid. All of the Conference-related TLI fundraising activities combined to bring in over $122,000.


AUCTION ITEMS, THEIR GENEROUS DONORS AND THE HIGH BIDDERS Item


Donor Log Cabin Quilt


Gourmet Dinner for 8 Gourmet Dinner for 8


Karen Cooper, TPI


Hank & Mary Kerfoot, Modern Turf Hank & Mary Kerfoot, Modern Turf


NASCAR driving package NC Sod Producers Association Cimarron TR Pistol Wyatt Earp Pistol Remington 30.60 Mossberg 12 gauge Brouwer Turf Roller


TLI


Daniel Huggett Doug Lechlider Daniel Huggett Brouwer Kesmac


Osceola Turkey Hunt Will Nugent, Bethel Farms Texas Hog Hunt Texas Hog Hunt


TPI Charlotte Package Stone 1


Trebro Harvester


Texas Sod Leasing Firefly Automatix TPI


Bob Weerts Trebro Manufacturing, Inc. Company


High Bidder Mark Tribbett Eric Heuver


Donna Coombs Fred Pittillo Dave Collier William Hiers


Randy Jasperson Mike Selman Jason Pooler


Linda Pittillo Bradley Dave Collier


Aaron McWhorter Steve Chont Jamie Holder


Anthony Heilig (Go Turf)


THE FOLLOWING DONATED TO TLI DURING THE AUCTION Person


John Fairty Claus Zander Darren Rietzel


Tim Wollesen


Fairgreen Sod Farms, Ltd. Zander Sod Co., Ltd. East Coast Turf


Kurt VanClief Willowlee Sod Farms Ltd. Troy Kuenzi


Mountain View Seeds Sales Midwest


Shelly Walters B & B Hoffman Sod Dave Dymond H & H Sod Company Matt Keeven Mike Selman Mark Tribbett Steve Griffen Jim Keeven


Tobey Wagner Greg DeBuck


Michigan Sod Growers 28


Saratoga Sod Farm SelecTurf, Inc. Sod Solutions


DeBuck’s Sod Farms of NY


Emerald View Turf Farms Buena Vista Turf Farm, LLC JB Instant Lawn


Gregg Tvetene (far left as viewed) and Ian True (far right as viewed) of Trebro Manufacturing, Inc. congratulate the high bidder for the Trebro Autostack II harvester, Anthony and Sonia Heilig of A&S Heilig t/a Go Turf, in Beerburrum, Queensland, Australia.


TPI Turf News May/June 2018


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