First the database has to be built and changed for every year.
This takes about 40 hours.
Each member get from 8 to 15 business to call on.
We have proximally 400 business that donates merchandise.
If they don't have merchandise to donate they usually give Saving Bonds. 
Next the database is give to Tom Sharp to print the sheets.
Some business gives more than one article to auction off. 
So there are about 600 sheet to print. 

The Sheets are given out the first week of September.
The Auction is always the second week in November.
The member have all their sheet turn in by the first week in
November 
{ HA HA HA}    NOT


Example of the sheet

It runs 5 night from 6:30 P M until usually 10:00 P M. 
We usually auction off about a hundred Items a night.

As the sheets are worked and turned in, the information is
Entered into the database by several members or their wives. 
Brenda Sharp
Ed McGill
John Montgomery 
Rick Steiner
And my self. 
Bill Bramlett doesn't know it but he will probably be added to the list!!!

When the information is entered, then the Items are divided equally for each
nights.
 A random file is built for each night along with and advertisement file. 
The nights of the Auction we usually have 12 members that take the bids.


There are 4 auctioneers.

The announcers  and the operators rotate when they are not busy EATING PIZZA.

We have one Very Important member that goes and get the Pizza and
drinks.
You can see the pizzas on the table by Paul and Lucille.

Paul and Lucille Caton are there every night to do the card and pull the sheet and sorts the bid cards number.

We work 15 items at a time.  
Each bidder has a bidder number.
When the operators take a new bid, it shows on the auctioneer's
screen and is up dated on the T V.  What you see on the operators screen
is what the bidders see on T V.  The announcers see the bid mount
and the person that bid and announces the change so the bidder's
that are just lessening on the radio know they have been out bid.
When the bidder stops on an item, the auctioneers sell the item.
A card is automatically printed out.(see printer by Tom Sharp)
The cards are taken to the Mtn. Home Chamber of Commerce were 
the successful bidder  can pay for the item and pick it up.
If the item in not at the chamber, it tells on the card were
they can pick it up.

A new item comes up in its place of the sold item. 
It has the words "NEW ITEM were the bidder name should be.
The auctioneers have to read the advertisement on the new item
before bids can be taken.

Before Tom Sharp (above) joined the Lions Club, 
the Auction was just on radio.
Tom wrote the programs and brought to the Club the
Expertise to put the auction on  TV also. 
Being on T V drastically speed up the bidding and
allowed us to auction more items each night. 
Tom also networked the computers.