Auction to benefit youth expo

Billy Joe's Auction Service in Fulton is hosting a consignment auction fundraiser May 17 for the Callaway Youth Expo.

The event starts at 10 a.m. at 5028 Pendergras Road and features items including two camping trailers, a golf cart, gun cabinet, furniture, industrial shelving, choke cables, tools and an international truck with mixer bed.

"A lot of people are starting to consign - it's going to be a pretty good day," owner Billy Crocker said. "We've got a bunch of tools, miscellaneous farm equipment - we've got a couple tractors - fence posts, tack, household items, antiques and collectibles. It's a variety of everything."

All of the proceeds from the auction will go to the youth expo.

Crocker said the web page for the auction - which can be found at www.auctionzip.com/MO-Auctioneers/168609.html - has had 5,462 views already.

Tommy Lee with the youth expo said event organizers appreciate all the community support.

"We've had a wonderful response - it seems like everyone jumped on again," Lee said. "We've had a tremendous amount of consignment items."

Crocker said he offered to put on the auction because "it's for the kids."

"They're trying to start all over and rebuild, and they need support," he said. "The more you come out and bid, the more we raise for 4-H and the youth fair."

Items are still being accepted for the auction: according to a promotional poster, "anything clean and usable you want to sell ... farm equipment, cars, trucks, household items, antiques, collectibles, guns, small animals."

There is a $35 fee for large items and a flat rate of 15 percent for small items and 10 percent for guns.

For more information or to consign, contact Crocker at (573) 220-8111, Lee at (573) 881-5476, Mike Musgrove at (573) 220-2888 or Denny Lee at (573) 338-7867.

The 2014 Callaway Youth Expo will be July 9-12 at the Lion's Club park in Auxvasse.

Katherine Cummins can be reached at (573) 826-2418 or [email protected]