Yoap and Yoap auction raises $8,500 for St. Jude

The annual New Year’s auction at the Yoap and Yoap Auction Gallery near Lena raised an estimated $8,500 for St. Jude Children’s Hospital.

Since the auctioneers started the fundraiser with the opening of the Auction Gallery in 2014, the annual fundraiser has raised almost $50,000 for the life-saving efforts and research carried out by St. Jude Children’s Hospital, a pediatric treatment and research facility in Memphis, Tennessee, focused on children’s catastrophic diseases, particularly leukemia and other cancers.

A farm toy display created by Steve Reinsbach of Lancaster for the National Farm Toy Museum was sold at the auction for $1,500 to VanderKinter Trucking of Denmark. Yoap and Yoap also held an old-fashioned pie auction, with the sale of two dozen pies raising an additional $7,000 for St. Jude.

Donations were made by R.L. Hall Land Title Co. of Oconto and Shawano, Mountain View Transport of Coleman, Witt Ford of Crivitz and Pulaski, Oak Ridge Taxidermy of Marinette, Beaver Machine of Coleman, S&L Ford of Oconto Falls, Jeff Zeitler Grain Farm of Pound, Nick Krause Dairy Farm of Gillett, Dan Bieber Equipment of Pound, Peshtigo National Bank, Wisconsin-Michigan Insurance of Marinette and Coleman, Double “K” Express of Coleman, Dan Risner and Son Excavating of Pound, Cliff Barbian of Rock Springs, and Collector’s Paradise Antique Mall of Middle Inlet. Several other generous donations were made by auction-goers to help the cause.