The Saints Peter and Paul Fall Fun Auction was held in the rural Solon church Sunday, Sept. 15.

Lunch menu included pork burger, pork loin, choices of sides, drinks and cookies.

Members of the chapel also prepared kolaches for sale, a long going portion of the fun auction.

Upstairs, the bidding was fierce on silent auction items from 11 a.m until 1 p.m. when bidding officially closed. A number of raffles were also held at the event, including a cookie in a jar raffle, where numerous cookies in a jar were sold and a winning raffle winner was drawn.

Jim Bledsoe won that $100 prize. Mary Hollenbauer won a gift basket featuring items from The Local, Iron Leaf Press and other shops. Nancy Vincent won the Yock’s Landing gift basket.

Will Dix won the Mount Vernon Bank and Trust fire pit, and Justin Dix won a gift basket from Silver Spider, Amanda Daye and Mary Joe Neggers. Jan Henie won the Hy-Vee trucks and tractor trailer, while Lou Ann Pisarik won the International Harvester tractor model.

Maddy Boren won the handmade quilt. The t-shirt silent auction determined which of Iowa’s three regent universities T-shirts would draw the most money.

The UNI Panthers shirt drew a bid of $20, the University of Iowa shirt $70 and the Iowa State university shirt drew $71. The fundraiser raised more than $3,000 for the day in silent auction alone.

The chapel will be holding a capital campaign starting later this year for needed improvements and care for the historic church.