Auction items sought to aid family

Published 4:00 pm Tuesday, February 5, 2008

JOHN DAY – The community can help the Coalwell family cope with medical expenses by attending a spaghetti feed and auction Feb. 23.

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The community can donate items to the auction by calling Winnie Browning, 620-0748, or Sherri Giffin, 575-0344 or 620-1666.

Jack Southworth will be the auctioneer for the event, which will feature a drawing for a rifle and scope, donated by Ace Hardware and John Day True Value.

The dinner starts at 6 p.m. at the John Day Elks Lodge.

People can also donate to an account set up at Sterling Savings Bank to help pay the family’s expenses.

The fund will help Terry and Leann Coalwell cope with expenses from the treatment of their sons – Trevyn, 4, and Ryan, 2 – who came down with a respiratory infection in mid-January.. The two boys were taken to Charles Medical Center in Bend.

Ryan was released last Monday, Jan. 28. Trevyn was released earlier.

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