Photo by Kathy Browning

Paonia Library is accepting bids on the quilt above, “Blue Planet: Earth, Sea and Sky.” Laura Lee Yates (foreground) told the crowd at this year’s Grape Stomp about the silent auction which will help defray the medical expenses of the Greg Podgorny family. Podgorny has ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). Holding the quilt are Jane Kelso (left) and Myrna Westerman (right).The Paonia Library is conducting a special silent auction for a handcrafted quilt. This is a fundraiser for Moni Slater, Paonia Library staff member and spearhead of the Kids' Pasta Project, her husband Greg Podgorny, and their two children, Siena and Slater.

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Photo by Kathy Browning Miss Frankenstein Seven-year-old Samantha “Sammi” Beck came as Frankenstein to the Hotchkiss High School FFA Halloween Party at Heritage Hall last Wednesday. “It matches her personality,” her dad laughed. “That’s all her natural hair right there!” Trick-or-treaters had a whole roomful of games to play and prizes to win at the annual event, a Hotchkiss tradition.