News & Events
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May 18, 2013- The 2013 AOBA National Show and Auction
We had an amazing night at the AOBA National Show and Auction. We raised $16,000 for our troops! Thank you, Marc and Sharon Milligan (Red Granite Ranch) for the purchase of Sedona. And thank you, Laurie McCallum Hoffman and Dillon Hoffman of Happy Hounds Alpaca Ranch for the matching donation and Crescent Moon Ranch for adding a breeding. A special thanks to Deb Dorband and Wayne Dorband of Mountain Sky Ranch for donating Sedona to the Sock Brigade and helping us raise $16k for our troops! Thanks to all who made this happen.
Pictured from left to right:
Dillon Hoffman & Laurie McCallum- Happy Hounds Alpaca Ranch -donated $8,000 cash to match bid
Marc & Sharon Milligan- Red Granite Ranch -donated $8,000 for purchase of Sedona
Deb & Wayne Dorband- Mountain Sky Ranch -donated alpaca Sedona
Barbara & Randy Coleman- Founders of the Sock Brigade
Missing from photo:
Scott & Debbie Miller- Crescent Moon Ranch -donated additional breeding to one of their herdsires
April 20,2013
At the Futurity Auction, we had an "initial" sale of Nancy Love donated by Aero Ranch to a group of farms from Canada for $2,100. They included:
Evergreen Acres Then, they donated her back to be auctioned off again!! The final purchasing farm, for $1,500, was: King and Prince Alpaca Farm Wings and a Prayer Alpacas (owned by Sock Brigade founders, Barbara and Randy Coleman) added a breeding as well. More details here... Thank you to everyone who participated! |
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May 27, 2012
Our Spoke Sock, Lamb Chop, MC's and hosts The BentStar Memorial Weekend Bash & Auction
May 20, 2011
At the Nationals Event in Denver, we raised $6,000!!! And we made an announcement: We are now purchasing socks from Flaggy Meadow Fiber Works. Socks made from U.S. alpaca fiber manufactured right here in the U.S.A.
Thank you to all who donated to the auction:
Timber Lodge Alpacas donated a framed photo of U.S. Veterans from Pearl Harbor and Iraq.
Shawn Malloy of Royalty Fiber Farm donated a box of 24 alpaca socks to send to our soldiers overseas.
Jude Anderson & Amanda VandenBosch, AOBA Senior Judges, donated a full day seminar.
Judy Steele of Polo Fields Farm has donated one of her beautiful pottery pieces.
Weather’d T Ranch donated one woven alpaca rug by T3 Weavers.
Pucara International donated airfare and accommodations for the 2011 Pucara Premium Reserve Auction.
April 16, 2011
At the Futurity Event, we raised $6,000, thanks to Snowmass Alpacas & East Fork Alpaca Farms! "Good Golly Miss Molly" was sold at the auction.
January 2011
Sock Brigade and Lamb Chop raised over $19,000 at the Priority Auction in Las Vegas!!! Thank you to all who donated items to the auction, and thank you to those who went home with those items.
The bidding on "Chai Tea" raised $9,000 as part of the night's donations to the Sock Brigade. Thank you Nancy Wright of Always Accoyo Alpacas for donating Chai Tea. Nancy had won Chai Tea in a previous raffle and graciously redonated Chai Tea to the Sock Brigade for this auction.
