{"id":780,"date":"2021-05-05T15:12:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T20:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/arapahoe\/?p=780"},"modified":"2021-05-05T15:12:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T20:12:54","slug":"3rd-annual-gala-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/arapahoe\/2021\/05\/05\/3rd-annual-gala-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd Annual Gala a Success!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/arapahoe\/files\/2021\/05\/Gala1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" data-attachment-id=\"777\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/arapahoe\/gala1\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/arapahoe\/files\/2021\/05\/Gala1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,960\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Gala1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/arapahoe\/files\/2021\/05\/Gala1-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/arapahoe\/files\/2021\/05\/Gala1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/arapahoe\/files\/2021\/05\/Gala1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-777\" srcset=\"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/arapahoe\/files\/2021\/05\/Gala1.jpg 720w, http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/arapahoe\/files\/2021\/05\/Gala1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Third Annual Arapahoe Gala was held on April 24<sup>th<\/sup>, 2021 at the Ella Missing Community Center and became one of our greatest fundraisers to date! The organizers set a fundraising goal of raising $40,000 and due to the generosity of our local community and beyond, this goal has been met.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s event was a hybrid of both mobile bidding and an in-person event. Ticket holders had the option of attending the dinner and dance event in person, or bidding from home. 154 people attended the April 24<sup>th<\/sup> event which began with a social hour with raffle games, then a catered dinner prepared by Marlene\u2019s Kitchen and served by the Arapahoe HS Speech team. A live auction for exclusive items was held under the direction of Mark &amp; Linda Hamel of Heartland Partners. George Probasco was the EMCEE who kept the night rolling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All ticket holders bid on over 100 auction items through a mobile bidding event that began the morning of the 24<sup>th<\/sup> and closed that evening. People from home and people at the EMCC were bidding on the same items through this mobile bidding platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Third Annual Arapahoe Gala was held on April 24th, 2021 at the Ella Missing Community Center and became one of our greatest fundraisers to date! The organizers set a fundraising goal of raising $40,000 and due to the generosity of our local community and beyond, this goal has been&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/arapahoe\/2021\/05\/05\/3rd-annual-gala-a-success\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4W7Ki-cA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/arapahoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/arapahoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/arapahoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/arapahoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/arapahoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/arapahoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/arapahoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/arapahoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/arapahoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/arapahoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}