A Holyday Tradition: BAY CITY’S Tree Lighting, Concert, And Fundraiser

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:
Marianne McCann
Bay City Alliance
marianne.mccann (at) gmail.com

A HOLIDAY TRADITION: BAY CITY’S TREE LIGHTING, CONCERT, AND FUNDRAISER

Annual event Returns on 3rd of December

BAY CITY, SL (11 November, 2023) - The Bay City Alliance will once again host its annual Tree Lighting event on Sunday, Saturday, 3rd December 2021 from 1-4 pm SLT at the Bay City Fairgrounds, in North Channel ( http://slurl.com/secondlife/North%20Channel/128/128/24/). The event will feature DJ GoSpeed of KONA Stream and live performances by Wolfie Starfire and Essence Bilasimo. There will be much mirth to be had, as well as ice-skating, dancing, refreshments and a whole lot of fun for all!

As part of the event, a silent auction supporting Child's Play Charity (www.childsplaycharity.org) will be held. At our 2022 event, we raised L$151.576, and intend to break that in 2023.

As of this date, several creators, artists, and brand have offered items for the auction, including Madpea, the Genus Project:, Javatar Mocha, Buzzbox Munro, Junk Food, Cica Ghost, Shippe & Saille, Plato Novo, Caly Applewhyte, ChristiSart, Dutch Mainsail, and Vicious Hollow.

Second Life® creators and artists who wish to participate by providing fun, interesting, unique, or other transferrable items (or a no-copy object that the auction winner can give to you to redeem their prize, if the item(s) have to be no transfer) may contact ThomasHooker Resident to participate.

Auction will end at the conclusion of the event. All proceeds from the silent auction and from donation bins at the venue will go to Child's Play Charity. Child's Play is a 501c3 non profit organization offers online communities such as ours an opportunity to help seriously ill children around the globe during their hospital stays with the purchase of games and gaming equipment.

Bay City is a mainland community, developed by Linden Lab® and home to the Bay City Alliance. The Bay City Alliance was founded in 2008 to promote the Bay City regions of Second Life and provide a venue for Bay City Residents and other interested parties to socialize and network. It is now the largest group for Residents of Bay City.

For more information, or to participate in the event, please contact Marianne McCann.

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20231203

BAY CITY’S ANNUAL TREE LIGHTING, CONCERT, AND FUND RAISER ANNOUNCED

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:
Marianne McCann
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:
Marianne McCann
Bay City Alliance
marianne.mccann at gmail.com

IT'S TIME ONCE AGAIN: BAY CITY’S ANNUAL TREE LIGHTING, CONCERT, AND FUND RAISER ANNOUNCED

Charity event returns on the 4th of December

BAY CITY, SL (30 November, 2022)

Now surely a time-honored holiday tradition, the Bay City Alliance will host its annual Tree Lighting event on the of 4th December 2022 from 1-4 pm SLT, at the Bay City Fairgrounds, in North Channel ( http://slurl.com/secondlife/North%20Channel/128/128/24/ ).

Providing music for the tree lighting are DJ GoSpeed of KONA Stream, as well as live performers Evee Blackstar and FrankLee Anatra.

As part of the event, a silent auction supporting Child's Play Charity (www.childsplaycharity.org) will be held.

Second Life® designers and artists who wish to participate by providing fun, interesting, unique, or other transferable items (or a no-copy object that the auction winner can give to you to redeem their prize, if the item(s) have to be no transfer) may contact ThomasHooker Resident to participate.

Auction will end at the conclusion of the event. All proceeds from the silent auction and from donation bins at the venue will go to Child's Play Charity. 

Child's Play is a 501c3 non profit organization offers online communities such as ours an opportunity to help seriously ill children around the globe during their hospital stays with the purchase of games and gaming equipment.

The event will also feature many other fun activities, including ice-skating, dancing, and refreshments.

Bay City is a mainland community, developed by Linden Lab® and home to the Bay City Alliance. The Bay City Alliance was founded in 2008 to promote the Bay City regions of Second Life and provide a venue for Bay City Residents and other interested parties to socialize and network. It is now the largest group for Residents of Bay City.

For more information, please contact Marianne McCann.

Reporter Vick Forcella
20221130

Bay City Annual Tree Lighting, Concert, And Fundraiser

===========FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:
Marianne McCann
Bay City Alliance
marianne.mccann at gmail.com

ANNOUNCING BAY CITY’S ANNUAL TREE LIGHTING, CONCERT, AND FUNDRAISER

Event Returning on 5th of December

BAY CITY, SL (2 December, 2021) -The Bay City Alliance will host its annual Tree Lighting event on Sunday, Saturday, 5th December 2021 from 1-4 pm SLT at the Bay City Fairgrounds, in North Channel ( http://slurl.com/secondlife/North%20Channel/128/128/24/ ). The event will feature DJ GoSpeed of KONA Stream and live performances by Tamra Hayden and FrankLee Anatra. There will be much merry-making,  ice-skating, dancing, refreshments and lots of fun for all!

As part of the event, a silent auction supporting Child's Play Charity (www.childsplaycharity.org) will be held. At our 2020 event, we raised L$135,994, and hope to break that in 2021

Confirmed designers, artists, and brands participating in the event include GenusProject, Diana Takeda (of Meshbody), Cica Ghost, Lunar Tripsa, Owen Lusch (of Lusch Motors), Brick Swansen, Late Billig (of Junk Food), Cindy Henusaki, Javatar Mocha, Plato Novo, Bryn Oh, Trinity Yazamoto, Vinsie Bunny, LadyJane Shippe (of Shippe & Saille), and OldManChristmas.
DeeDee Dakota will also be offering a parcel in Bay City - Falconmoon!

Additional Second Life™ designers and artists who wish to participate by providing fun, interesting, unique, or other transferable items (or a no-copy object that the auction winner can give to you to redeem their prize, if the item(s) have to be no transfer) may contact ThomasHooker Resident to participate.

Auction will end at the conclusion of the event. All proceeds from the silent auction and from donation bins at the venue will go to Child's Play Charity. Child's Play is a 501c3 non profit organization offers online communities such as ours an opportunity to help seriously ill children around the globe during their hospital stays with the purchase of games and gaming equipment.

Bay City is a mainland community, developed by Linden Lab® and home to the Bay City Alliance. The Bay City Alliance was founded in 2008 to promote the Bay City regions of Second Life and provide a venue for Bay City Residents and other interested parties to socialize and network. It is now the largest group for Residents of Bay City.

For more information, or to participate in the event, please contact Marianne McCann. ========================================<end of transmission>

Reporter Vick Forcella

20211203

Announcment: Tree Lighting Event

Coming to Second Life® for the eleventh year in a row is Bay City's annual annual Tree Lighting event on Sunday, 6th December 2020 from 1-4 pm SL. 

The event will be held at the Bay City Fairgrounds, in North Channel ( http://slurl.com/secondlife/North%20Channel/128/128/24/ ) and will feature GoSpeed of KONA stream and live performances by Maximillion Kleene and Wolfie Starfire. The event will also feature ice-skating, dancing, refreshments and plenty of fun for everyone!

As part of the event, a silent auction will again be held to support Child's Play Charity (www.childsplaycharity.org). We are asking Second Life® designers and artists to participate by providing fun, interesting, unique, or other transferable items (or a no-copy object that the auction winner can give to you to redeem their prize, if the item(s) have to be no transfer). Please contact Marianne McCann to participate. 

Auction will end at the conclusion of the event. All proceeds from the silent auction and from donation bins at the venue will go to Child's Play Charity. Child's Play is a 501c3 non profit organization offers online communities such as ours an opportunity to help seriously ill children around the globe during their hospital stays with the purchase of games and gaming equipment. Bay City has raised over US$3000.00 for Child's Play at the tree lighting and at charity car washes held in Second Life®

Bay City is a mainland community, developed by Linden Lab® and home to the Bay City Alliance. The Bay City Alliance was founded in 2008 to promote the Bay City regions of Second Life and provide a venue for Bay City Residents and other interested parties to socialize and network. It is now the largest group for Residents of Bay City.

For more information, or to participate in the event, please contact Marianne McCann.

Reporter Dakota Schwade
20201204

Fundraising Totals!

Our annual fundraising for Child's Play Charity (www.childsplaycharity.org) roared back with a vengeance this year!

After a hiatus in 2018, the auction returned to the annual tree lighting with some amazing prizes. Several vehicles stood shoulder to shoulder -- or would that be wheel to wheel -- with amazing art pieces. A new Nordic from Lusch Motors and a large helicopter from Shergood Aviation were the top earners among the vehicles, with pieces from Cica Ghost, Trinity Yazimoto, Bryn Oh, and Evola Courtois dominating the artwork. There were even some amazing gaming materials, and two -- count 'em, two -- 1024m Bay City parcels donated by Mitch Merricks!

In the auction, we raised a total of L$139,225: a new high over any of our previous auctions.

That's not all, however. In addition to the auction, we had donation bins throughout the fairgrounds. These bins were available not only during the tree lighting, but also at the lighted boat parade, the skate party, and the prim drop, as well as any time someone came to the fairgrounds.

The donation bins took in an additional L$104,100 in total donations, making for a grand total of…

L$243,325

Our previous record was set 2017, where we raised L$185,406 for the entire season. So, once again, we broke our previous record!

Good job, everyone!

-Marianne McCann

Reporter Marianne McCann 

200106

Tree Lighting Roundup And Seasons Wishes

After the announcement of the tree lighting event we offered a preview to the auction. This report to show you results and some cool pictures.

But first this,

Note: Don't let Marianne go near the ink well again.

and this,

Image: Anne McMinnar

Just before the party started the auction vendors opened and the first bids went in.

A pre-party started with the KONA stream, people flocked in while GoSpeed made sure the KONA stream could handle it all.

Then, when about 30 people had arrived, GoSpeed took the stage and whipped up some amazing tunes. The conga line was filled quickly.

The auction biddings continued. The first auction wars flamed up.

Mimi Carpenter took the stage and gave us live music with the most adorable accent.

The fairgrounds filled to the max, people were stuck at the bridge. Around the conga were people dancing and drinking hot cocoa.

After Mimi came live music from Wolfie Starfire.

heated bidding

With Pygar arriving the auction wars went out of control, bids went in left and right. People were shouting, shaking their fists, banning each other. The auction vendors were heating up nearly melting the ice-ring around the tree.

Half way of the performance of Wolfie things went silent. Everybody looked at the tree, the countdown started. 

Five !
Four !
Three !
Two !

ONE !!..........

Then at exactly 3:30 the lights in the tree were lit. Fireworks started.

lit

lit with kaboom

Wolfie continued her performance, some started using the ice-ring and started skating.

The auction entered it's final phase. 

The last knock-out bids were placed, some bidders collapsed on the floor and needed emergency treatment.

When the auction ended the vendors shouted out the result:

Taking a ride with my best friend; L$1000
BAY CITY Black Leather Rider; L$2500
Apple Fall Gift Card 1; L$2000
Cica's knitted Christmas tree by Cica Ghost; L$10000
Hill Village Diorama; L$400
Studio Dire Charity Bundle #2; L$600
C.H.C Concept Bay City Edition; L$4000
Studio Dire Charity Bundle #4; L$600
Auction - an invisible sun (Evola Courtois); L$5400
182 Turbo Skylane; L$4000
EG Aircraft - P38 Lightning; L$7225
AD25H LittleBee Voucher; L$2100
[AIKIOTO] Samba Camper; L$6000
EG Aircraft ATX 72; L$1700
Auction - lark side of the doom (Evola Courtois); L$500
Defiant mouse girl by Bryn Oh; L$1500
SA Airbus-H160; L$11100
Stitch Alchemy Mary Dress; L$500
Script Alchemy - Bay City Tree Lighting Auction Gift; L$1200
Java Motors Choice of Aircraft; L$3000
Bay City Land (236,11); L$23000
Apple Fall Gift Card 2; L$2100
Studio Dire Charity Bundle #3; L$400
Yamaha R1 Superbike; L$1100
Les clapotis by Trinity Yazimoto; L$4000
EG Aircraft - Cessna 421; L$3400
Lovely Snow Ball Musical; L$350
night visions (Evola Courtois); L$800
Auction - inward outward (Evola Courtois); L$300
Lusch Nordic; L$4000
Studio Dire Charity Bundle #5; L$500
Auction - love & laughter & dreams & chemicals of you; L$100
Studio Dire Charity Bundle #1; L$1000
L$3000 credit with Laminar Systems; L$5700
FAYDED Household Furnishings; L$1100
Bay City Land (236,23); L$15050
Infinity Freight Vehicle Voucher; L$9800
Auction - fulfillment (Evola Courtois); L$1200

The next day Marianne was singing the following happy song:

The auction brought in an astounding L$139,225! What's more, we have currently raised L$31509 in the donation bins, bringing our one day total to L$170,734! Wowza!

Our previous record today was 2017, where we raised L$185,406 for the entire season. At this rate, we are on track to smash that record!

IMPORTANT!

The donation boxes are still there and are waiting for your donation!

Smash the record of 2017!

The Bay City Post, and I assume the Bay City Alliance goes along with this, would like to thank: (all offered their services for free!)

GoSpeed for supplying two perfect music streams,

Mimi Carpenter for her beautiful Canadian performance, 

Wolfie Starfire for her gorgeous singing,

Vian for helping the musicians,

ALL !! the creators that donated their creations,

Mitch for donating two Bay City Parcels,

The auction bidders that went nuts while bidding,

The people that so generously donated,

All visitors that made this event an event,

Inara, Daniel and Wurfi for helping to bring in a crowd,

Linden Lab to provide their services to make this possible, and send two guards to protect all the valuables,

Anne for making great images,

Thomas for contacting so many creators and not accepting no for an answer,

Marianne for setting her work aside to push this event along,

... and ever ybody I have not mentioned but helped making this event possible.

Reporter Vick Forcella (that now has a knitted xmas tree)

191213

Silent Auction Preview Has Opened!

We have announced the annual Tree Lighting Event that will take place December the 8th at the Bay City Fairgrounds.
Part of the event is a silent auction. Let me explain.

Donators, mostly creators, have donated items, services and land (!!) for this auction. The proceeds of the auction will go to Child's Play Charity.
The auction will start December the 8th on 1 PM SLT.(or earlier)
To win an auction you will pay a vendor. If somebody after you pays more you will get your money back and you have a chance to increase your bid. If nobody pays more then you, you will win the auction for that item.

The items on offer can be a good deal, if the price remains low enough. Some items can go for a higher price as the nominal value. Since this is an auction for charity.
Some items are unique. A one-off. The price can range from 0L$ to 10000000L$. Nobody knows.

The auction will end December the 8th at 4 PM SLT.
In between there is dance, music, snacks and good company.

Following a preview of some of the vendors. Between now and then there can be more auction vendors. Sorry if I get names wrong.

Apple Fall

Studio Dire Remnant Ashbourne

Evola Courtois

Evola Courtois, some amazing and unique artwork.

Infinity Freight & Laminar Systems & Piaggio Systems

Stitch Alchemy & Quartz Paris

Aikioto & C.H.C

Two quite amazing vehicles!

Cheermaster

Trinity Yakamoto

Trin (I am allowed to call Trin Trin) has two works of art on the auction.

Bryn Oh with unique art

EG Aircraft

More amazing Evola Courtois

Cica Ghost, knitted art

Mini A Chuu

Owen Lusch

One of the best car builders in this world.

Mitch Merricks 2x!!

This is AMAZING! Mitch is auctioning off TWO BAY CITY PARCELS!!!

Shergood Aviation

Some hate it. I loooove it. Helicopters by Kelly.

Drop by today or tomorrow before the event so you can see what you can bid on.
I might have missed a few items. I apologise for that.

Thank you T.J.Hooker for your skills and talent getting so many donators for this auction.
Thank you Marianne McCann for fine tuning and pushing this event to where it is.
Thank you Vian Magic for getting the music in here.
Thank you all the creators and residents for all these valuable donations.

Reporter Vick Forcella

191207

BAY CITY’S ANNUAL TREE LIGHTING, CONCERT, AND FUNDRAISER

==

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:

Marianne McCann

Bay City Alliance

marianne.mccann(at)gmail.com

DATE:

27 November, 2019

BAY CITY, SL

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BAY CITY’S ANNUAL TREE LIGHTING, CONCERT, AND FUNDRAISER

Long-Running Event Returns on 8th of December

Returning on Sunday, 8th December 2019 from 1-4 pm SLT, the Bay City Alliance will host its annual Tree Lighting event at the BayCity Fairgrounds, in North Channel ( http://slurl.com/secondlife/North%20Channel/128/128/24/ ). The event will feature DJ GoSpeed of KONA Stream and live performances by Mimi Carpenter and Wolfie Starfire. There will be ice-skating, dancing, refreshments and lots of fun to be had!

As part of the event, a silent auction supporting Child's Play Charity (www.childsplaycharity.org) will be held.

Second Life™ designers and artists who wish to participate by providing fun, interesting, unique, or other transferrable items (or a no-copy object that the auction winner can give to you to redeem their prize, if the item(s) have to be no transfer) may contact ThomasHooker Resident to participate.

Confirmed designers, artists, and brands participating in the event include 

• Cica Ghost
• Apple Fall
• Bryn Oh
• Ape Piaggio
• Lusch Motors
• Remnant Ashbourne
• Peony Sweetwater
• ChuuAkamine
• EG Aircraft
• Trinity Yazimoto
• Shergood Aviation
• Evola Courtois
• Java Motors
• Christi Charron
• Clothing Inventor
• Faye Blackheart
• Yavanna Llanfair
• Fabiana Castello
• Cindy Henusaki
• Kennylex Luckless
• Atomic Infinity
• Script Alchemi

Mitch Merricks will also be offering two Bay City parcels.

Auction will end at the conclusion of the event. All proceeds from the silent auction and from donation bins at the venue will go to Child's Play Charity. Child's Play is a 501c3 non profit organization offers online communities such as ours an opportunity to help seriously ill children around the globe during their hospital stays with the purchase of games and gaming equipment.

Bay City is a mainland community, developed by Linden Lab® and home to the Bay City Alliance. The Bay City Alliance was founded in 2008 to promote the Bay City regions of Second Life and provide a venue for Bay City Residents and other interested parties to socialize and network. It is now the largest group for Residents of Bay City.

For more information, or to participate in the event, please contact Marianne McCann.

Reporter Marianne McCann

191127

Bay City Post - December 2016

WELCOME to the sixty-third issue of the Bay City Post! - Keeping you updated on the best city on the Grid! Let's see what's happening in our fair city as December rolls around.

The biggest news this month, of course, was the coming of Primsmas! While Bay City has always enjoyed a double prim allowance, with the new increase residents can now do even more with their homes and shops. Just in time for some incredible holiday decorating! Speaking of decorations, there will be a Bay City Holiday Tour across the city on Thursday, December 22 at 4 PM SLT! We will run a guided tour of the best decorated parcels in the city, meeting up at a starting point , taking transportation from parcel to parcel, and showcasing each decorator's land and giving time for individuals to explore the parcel. We will end at the Bay City Fairgrounds for ice skating and hot chocolate! Bay City Residents - if you think your parcel is worthy of being a part of this tour, please contact Georgia Florence Sipe (lilaskyheart). Details to follow in a Bay City Alliance group announcement, so if you are not yet a member, now is the time to join!

Don't forget that tomorrow (December 3rd, 2016) is the Bay City Tree Lighting and Silent Auction (details in a full article below). Get your ice skates out and your bidding fingers ready, and we hope to see everyone tomorrow from 1-4 PM SLT on the Fairgrounds! For now, enjoy this month's articles by our amazing reporters (for new readers, these are located along the left sidebar) and a Happy Primsmas to one and all!

Yer Ever-lovin' Editor,
Kinn
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And Now, For Breaking News

BREAKING BREAKING BREAKING

New prim limits lead to increased production at ANWR, and aging tankers brought in to handle the load cause an environmental disaster! What more might we have to endure for these new limits?
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Tom the Turkey protests Thanksgiving Tamale Platter at Toxic Taco! "Eat More Cow," says Tom

But then disaster struck!
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Toxic Taco opens second location, is immediately shut down in gas explosion!

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TOMORROW!!!

BAY CITY'S ANNUAL TREE LIGHTING, CONCERT, AND FUNDRAISER

by Ace Reporter, Marianne McCann

This event is now celebrating its 7th Annual observance.

The Bay City Alliance will host its holiday Tree Lighting event TOMORROW, Saturday, 3rd December 2016 from 1-4 pm SL. The event will be held at the Bay City Fairgrounds, in North Channel and will feature DJ GoSpeed of KONA Stream, and live performers Christov Kohnke and Zachh Cale. The event will also feature ice-skating, dancing, refreshments and a lot of fun for everyone, as well as the annual lighting of our Christmas tree.

Once again, Bay City will host a silent auction to support Child's Play Charity.  Bay City is a Silver Sponsor of Child's Play Charity, having raised over US$2,000.00 to support the work of the charity.  Second Life™ designers and artists have generously agreed to participate by providing fun, interesting, unique, or other transferable items (or a no-copy object that the auction winner can give to you to redeem their prize, if the item(s) have to be no transfer). Please join us, check out the items, and BID, BID, BID!

The auction will end at the conclusion of the event. All proceeds from the silent auction and from donation bins at the venue will go to Child's Play Charity. Child's Play is a 501c3 non profit organization offers online communities such as ours an opportunity to help seriously ill children around the globe during their hospital stays with the purchase of games and gaming equipment.

Bay City is a mainland community, developed by Linden Lab® and home to the Bay City Alliance. The Bay City Alliance was founded in 2008 to promote the Bay City regions of Second Life and provide a venue for Bay City Residents and other interested parties to socialize and network. It is now the largest group for Residents of Bay City.

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Until next time, Happy Holidays from all of us here at The Bay City Post!