Chelle’s Garden of Matador hosted a fundraiser for six-year-old Paxton Barclay’s medical expenses on July 13 with a cornhole tournament, silent auction and live auction.
According to organizer Rachelle Watson, the auction had 54 donated items. With both the silent auction, live auction and addons, the auctions brought in $31,300. Watson said the cornhole tournament ended up with around 30 teams that all came out in full support. She said after several hours of play, Brandon Martin and Bradley Brown ended up taking first place, with Tim Washington and Caleb Clary coming in second. Both teams donated their winnings back to Paxton’s fund. With the pulled-pork lunch, street-taco dinner, tournament, auctions and donation buckets from the event. the total raised was a little over $41,000 and counting.
Watson said that she had so many people to thank that she hoped she didn’t forget anyone. She said she wanted to express her appreciation to all the people who donated items to the auctions; Ty and Sabrina for all their help; Fuzzy Conner for cooking the pork; Brenda Osborn for cooking and serving lunch; Sam Jameson and Dusty Jackson for helping cook and serve; Lance and Sherryll Barclay, who helped with food and the cornhole tournament; Brandon Martin, who helped with different projects in preparation of the event and donated a sound system; Vicky Martin, who donated bartending services; Cynthia Stafford, who donated bartending services; David Stafford who brought coolers and ice; Kenny Johannes who donated time to set up and bartend; Lee and Misty Jones, who assisted with the auction, brought different items and helped wherever needed; Chance and Linsee Kitchens, who helped set up and donated numerous items; Ziggy’s Island Grill for prepping and cooking street tacos; Chelsea DeLong for helping with the satellite bar and making cookies; all the Barclay family for helping serve the pulled pork; Julia Mann, Next Era and the Roaring Springs Solar Project for sponsoring the band and auction items; Stacie Stoerner for gathering auction items and donations; Justin Jameson for helping with cornhole tournament and those from the community who donated and/ or stored ice; Kenneth Marshall for donating his lots to hold the cornhole tournament; Luckyside LLC for donations for the food and auction; Jameson Drilling for donating towards food and auction items; One Pour Pony for coming out and serving some great beverages; Snowcone Gals for serving some treats to cool everyone down in mid-July
Watson expressed gratitude to all those who attended in support of Paxton
