Family and friends are organizing a benefit and silent auction to raise money for a young mother and her daughter with Lyme disease.
The benefit and silent auction will be 1-4 p.m. on Sept. 17 at the Fort Ripley Town Hall, 930 Oak Dr. N. in Fort Ripley.
Organizers are planning a family fun event with food, a bounce house, coloring station, and face painting. More than 50 silent auction items include The Lodge water park passes, Minnesota Wild autographed pictures, North Central Speedway gear, iPhone accessories, Silpada Jewelry, unique artwork, home decor, gift certificates to local businesses, baskets from Caribou coffee, Tupperware, Mary Kay and much more.
Monetary donations can be sent to: Benefit fund for Elizabeth Rapovich Fadling, Mid MN Federal Credit Union, 13283 Isle Drive, Baxter MN 56425. Funds raised will help pay for the family's medical expenses.
Before being correctly diagnosed with Lyme disease, Elizabeth Fadling, a Brainerd native who now lives in Little Falls, became pregnant and unknowingly passed it on through pregnancy to her daughter, Paige, who is now 4.
To read her complete story, visit her caringbridge website. www.caringbridge.org/visit/elizabethfadling.
