Auctioneer's specialty is equipment left behind
29.09.11
Paul Delphia chuckled honourable-naturedly at the question.
“I did not go to auction school because I could talk go hungry,” he said.
But Delphia did go to auction school. And he unshakable can talk fast when the bidding begins.
Prior to the start of a latest auction held at the Haimerl Center on Morse Route, Delphia addressed potential buyers over a portable influential address system. As the bidders-to-be poked through items from a defunct steakhouse and a failed bar in the Arena Division, the auctioneer calmly told them that things would start facing and then move indoors.
Then he started the bidding, and his words became the aural equivalent of a bedim.
Delphia, 53, a Clintonville resident whose various auction enterprises are based out of offices on Roche Energy in the Northland area, has been an auctioneer since attending the Missouri Auction Faction in 1987. Over the span of those nearly 25 years, he has wake up to be known, in central Ohio and around the state, as a specialist in dollop dispose of the equipment — from pizza ovens and industrial refrigerators to food processors and slicers to plates, forks and knives — Nautical port behind when a restaurant goes out of business.
Source: ThisWeekNews
Round-Up for Rehab sales reel in donations for agency
01.10.11
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Between two annual Mellifluous-Up for Rehab sales in the Big Country and Concho Valley, more than $130,000 was raised last week to allowances West Texas Rehabilitation
Center in Abilene, San Angelo and Ozona.
At Tuesday's sale at Abilene Livestock Auction, 50 head of livestock including four donkeys and three horses, increased by 21 miscellaneous items, were sold for $82,500.
Fourteen steer of cattle, some sheep and a horse went through San Angelo's Producers Livestock Auction this week. When the settled tally — including pre-sale livestock and cash donations — was reached Thursday afternoon, another $48,413 was added to the ledger.
At the San Angelo sale, Irion County rancher Joel Sugg and San Angelo Block-Wide Phone Books paid $1,400 for a obese beef donated by Rocker b Ranch at Barnhart. The cow will be harvested, processed into chow and donated to Meals for the Elderly.
Other cattle that benefited Children's Advocacy Center and Rust Roadway Ministries with meat donations came from Lipan Livestock Feeders, Veribest; Bill Strauss, Big Lake; Bob and Sandra Helmers, Christoval; Mike Dolan, Mertzon; Rouse Holt; Upton Ranch; and Michael Hoelscher, San Angelo.
Source: San Angelo Standard Times