Boosters’ big night
Wiscasset High School staff member Deb Pooler, left, serves as a volunteer auctioneer at a Wiscasset All Sports Boosters fundraiser on Sept. 5. Modeling old school sports clothes on the Wiscasset High School gym are, from left, Connor Robertson, 10, Cody Cleaveland, 9, and Emmitt Loupe, 7, all of Wiscasset. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Al Andrews, left, of Westport Island and wife Roxanne Andrews consider items to buy at a Wiscasset All Sports Boosters benefit on Sept. 5, in the Wiscasset High School gym. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Wiscasset High School Principal Cheri Towle takes part in a bidding war in the auction portion of a Wiscasset All Sports Boosters event at Wiscasset High School on September 5. Towle won, snagging a duffel bag for $56, to benefit the Boosters’ cause of student athletics. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Cody Cleaveland, foreground, 9, of Wiscasset and a stage full of other volunteer models accept applause at the close of a fashion show featured at a Wiscasset All Sports Boosters fundraiser at Wiscasset High School on Sept. 5. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Wiscasset High School staff member Deb Pooler, left, serves as a volunteer auctioneer at a Wiscasset All Sports Boosters fundraiser on Sept. 5. Modeling old school sports clothes on the Wiscasset High School gym are, from left, Connor Robertson, 10, Cody Cleaveland, 9, and Emmitt Loupe, 7, all of Wiscasset. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Al Andrews, left, of Westport Island and wife Roxanne Andrews consider items to buy at a Wiscasset All Sports Boosters benefit on Sept. 5, in the Wiscasset High School gym. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Wiscasset High School Principal Cheri Towle takes part in a bidding war in the auction portion of a Wiscasset All Sports Boosters event at Wiscasset High School on September 5. Towle won, snagging a duffel bag for $56, to benefit the Boosters’ cause of student athletics. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Cody Cleaveland, foreground, 9, of Wiscasset and a stage full of other volunteer models accept applause at the close of a fashion show featured at a Wiscasset All Sports Boosters fundraiser at Wiscasset High School on Sept. 5. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Roxanne and Al Andrews bought several pieces of clothing from Wiscasset school sports’ past Friday night, Sept. 5. The Westport Island couple will give them as surprise presents to their grown children, Wiscasset High School alumni who now live in Alabama and Connecticut.
“Probably what will happen is the grandchildren will end up wearing them,” Roxanne Andrews said, smiling after picking up the bargains. There were plenty to be had, and a flow of shoppers to buy them from the Wiscasset All Sports Boosters. The group got the items from the new Wiscasset School Department, after staff at the three schools went through the closets for long-stored items.
By organizer and Boosters member Betsy Cossette’s estimate, at least 40 people volunteered to help with the fundraiser, a fashion show, sale and auction to benefit the Boosters’ cause of supporting student athletics.
Boosters President Gordon Campbell praised Cossette for heading up the event and making it a success.
“She has done an awesome job,” he said in an interview in the Wiscasset High School gym. “I probably couldn’t count the hours she has put in.”
The gym was hot Friday night. Event-goers used their numbered auction paddles as fans. But enthusiasm remained high, in the audience and on-stage, where alumni including Wiscasset Fire Chief T.J. Merry and current students from Wiscasset Primary School on up gave the sports clothes their best shot at bringing in money. From cheerleading to Toni Basil’s “Mickey,” to a pretend baseball game as John Fogerty’s “Centerfield” played, the volunteer models entertained as Wiscasset High staff member Deb Pooler took the mike as auctioneer.
Wiscasset High’s new principal Cheri Towle modeled and later bid, entering and winning a bidding war over a duffel bag. She paid $56 for it.
Friday’s event raised more than $1,500. About $250 of that had already come in prior to the event, in advance sales and donations, Cossette said.
Many sports clothes remain to be sold. If interested, contact Cossette at bccsstt6@yahoo.com or 207-380-3395.
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