Old Hotel Art Gallery to return to in-person fundraiser Saturday

OTHELLO — After a year’s hiatus, the Old Hotel Art Gallery will hold its annual fundraising dinner and auction in person Saturday at the Sacred Heart Catholic Parish at 616 E. Juniper St. The silent auction starts at 6 p.m. and the live auction at 7 p.m.

Tickets are $20 for adults and $18 for seniors. Gallery director Jenn Stevenson said attendees must be 21 or older.

People will be asked to take COVID-19 precautions, Stevenson said. Masks will be available at the dinner.

“We have some awesome (auction) donations,” Stevenson said.

Among the items up for auction will be a pie per month, made and donated by gallery chair Diana Brault. There’s a dinner for eight from Tim Fought, owner of Classic Grill’n, a barbecue catering company in Othello.

The owners of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Business Car No. 101, at Bruce and Lee roads, are allowing the car, on the National Register of Historic Places, to be used as the venue of a dinner for eight. There’s also an Asian dinner for eight cooked by Rob Simmons, an Othello chiropractor who said he is an enthusiastic cook. All dinners would be for eight adults.

Other auction items include art, antiques and collectibles, Stevenson said.

Cheryl Schweizer can be reached at cschweizer@columbiabasinherald.com.