Nothing beats a great bargain and helping cure multiple sclerosis at the same time.<\/p>\n
That’s exactly what\u2019s happening for the 14th consecutive year when the MS Awareness Silent Auction will be held from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday, May 4, at Mr. Chubby’s Wings in Ponte Vedra Beach.<\/p>\n
The event, which features 300 retail, service and restaurant\u00a0items, is free to the public. All proceeds benefit the North Florida Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.<\/p>\n
Items to be bid on include ski trips, beach B&Bs, weekend getaways, 85 local restaurants, sporting event and concert tickets, jewelry, kayaking and sailing, fine wine and much more \u2014 all donated by more than 200 area MS supporters.<\/p>\n
Created\u00a0and sponsored by local Bike MS cycling team Big Bananas, the event has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars since 2012, all of which provides programs and services to the more than 18,000 North Floridians impacted by multiple\u00a0sclerosis.<\/p>\n
Said co-chair Linda Bushong-Reid, \u201cCome to the auction and you\u2019ll find not only great deals on items but a group of very passionate volunteers and MS staff focused on creating a world free of MS.\u201d<\/p>\n
Big Bananas was formed in 2010 and the team of 20 cyclists have fundraised more than\u00a0$2.5 million to battle the disease. The team\u2019s biggest fundraiser is the Oct. 3-4 Bike MS Cycle to the Shore ride,\u00a0when they annually surpass the $200,000 level.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nothing beats a great bargain and helping cure multiple sclerosis at the same time. That’s exactly what\u2019s happening…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-244981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}