{"id":82814,"date":"2015-10-02T07:30:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T12:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=82814"},"modified":"2015-10-05T11:08:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T16:08:10","slug":"st-johns-academy-hope-dinner-auction-oct-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=82814","title":{"rendered":"St. John&#8217;s Academy HOPE Dinner Oct 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stjohnsHOPEdinner1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-82834\" alt=\"Hope dinner 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stjohnsHOPEdinner1-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stjohnsHOPEdinner1-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stjohnsHOPEdinner1-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stjohnsHOPEdinner1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Jamestown (CSi) The 25<sup>th<\/sup> Annual St. John\u2019s Academy HOPE (Help Offer Private Education) Dinner and Auction is set for Saturday October 3, 2015 at St. John\u2019s Zebedee Center, starting at 5-p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Guests on Wednesday\u2019s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Jim and Carolyn Exner have been involved with the planning for a number of years, including the first 10 years of the event, which was started in 1990 by then Pricipal, Sister Dorothy Zeller. The Exner\u2019s have returned to Publicity Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Carolyn pointed out that the first dinner and auction collected $2,500 from the dinner and $4,000 from the auction that was organized by Jim Exner.<\/p>\n<p>More from Orr auctioned items at the first event, and continues through the years.<\/p>\n<p>She added that in 1999 the event raised over $50,000 and through the first 10, around $317,000.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past three years, each year the dinner and auction raised over $100,000 with the generous support of the community, both in attendance and those contributing auction items.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsorships have increased from 9-sponsors in 1990, to 55 sponsors last year.<\/p>\n<p>Jim pointed out that tickets are going quickly and to call St. John\u2019s Academy for ticket purchases and availablitiy.<\/p>\n<p>He said the first year the dinner and auction attracted about 160 participants, and now the event fills, with the limit of 300 attending.<\/p>\n<p>The event outgrew the Jamestown Knights of Columbus Hall, and was moved to the Jamestown Civic Center.<\/p>\n<p>The dinner and auction has been held at the Zebedee Center at St. John\u2019s Academy since it opened in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Jim said the HOPE Dinner and Auction is one of the largest events in Jamestown each year, and has grown to include community-wide support.<\/p>\n<p>Dollars raised through the years go to educational support, including keeping up with technology.<\/p>\n<p>St. John\u2019s Academy recent completed improvements to the school\u2019s playground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) The 25th Annual St. John\u2019s Academy HOPE (Help Offer Private Education) Dinner and Auction is set for Saturday October 3, 2015 at St. John\u2019s Zebedee Center, starting at 5-p.m. Guests on Wednesday\u2019s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, Jim and Carolyn Exner have been involved with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82814"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83762,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82814\/revisions\/83762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}