| Kaminski Auctions Announces its Annual April Auction Featuring ...
Kaminski Auctions, one of Massachusetts' premier antiques and fine art auction houses, announces their Annual April Auction. This outstanding auction will feature several estate collections, 18th-century heirlooms from the Hannah Davis family of Concord and Bedford, Mass., as well as fine colonial furnishings returned home from California to their origins in New England. The auction will take place Sunday, April 22, at 10:30 a.m., with an on-site preview offered between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. Boston, Mass (PRWEB) April 5, 2007 -- Kaminski Auctions, one of Massachusetts' premier antiques and fine art auction houses, announces their Annual April Auction. The auction will take place Sunday, April 22, at 10:30 a.m., with an on-site preview offered between the hours of 8:30 a.m.
Trivia Night and Silent Auction
Join the Capital Region Medical Center's Heart Walk Team on April 27 at Jefferson City's McClung Park for a fun filled evening of trivia and games all to benefit the American Heart Association.
The doors open at 6:30 p.m. with trivia questions scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. A silent auction will be held as well as a live auction for products made in Mid-Missouri. Soda and pretzels will be provided and teams are welcome to bring their own snacks.Tables can be reserved anytime between now and the day of the event. The cost of a table is $100 with a 10 person maximum. To reserve a table please call Holly Kraftor at (573) 645-1829.
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Tanzania beefs up anti-corruption law
NAIROBI, April 23 (Reuters) - Tanzania has passed a new anti-graft law giving corruption fighters in the east African country more power to target areas like government procurement and money laundering, a minister said on Monday. Stamping out graft has been among President Jakaya Kikwete's top priorities since he came to power in late 2005. The new legislation gives the state-run Prevention and Combating Corruption Bureau the power to seize assets from the guilty. "The most weighted (crimes) deal with grand corruption like procurement, money laundering and corruption in auctions," Philip Marmo, minister of state for good governance in the president's office, told Reuters by phone from Dar es Salaam. The law, approved by parliament last week, will come into force with Kikwete's assent, he said, probably within a month.
Arsenal to resist any takeover bids
Arsenal are bracing for a possible takeover battle after a boardroom split prompted the exit of vice-chairman David Dein, the man credited with much of the club's success over the past decade. The split surfaced after the purchase of an 11 per cent stake in the club by US billionaire Stan Kroenke and a widely-held belief he is planning to buy the north London club - with Dein potentially having a role in the takeover. Club chairman Peter Hill-Wood made clear the board's opposition to any such move by Kroenke, saying: "Call me old fashioned, but we don't need his money and we don't want his sort. "Our objective is to keep Arsenal English - albeit with a lot of foreign players. I don't know for certain if Kroenke will mount a hostile takeover, but we shall resist it with all our might." Hill-Wood also dismissed the idea of a new buyer spending heavily in the transfer market.
U2 auctions guitars for Katrina victims
The beloved Gibson Les Paul guitar owned by U2's The Edge fetched $US240,000 ($A287,300) and Bono's sunglasses pulled in $US20,000 ($A23,900) at an auction to benefit musicians who lost everything in Hurricane Katrina. Yesterday's auction at New York's Hard Rock Cafe by Julien's Auctions raised $US2.44 million ($A2.92 million), including a 20 per cent buyer's fee, for Music Rising, a charity set up by The Edge and other musicians after the 2005 Gulf Coast hurricane. It marked the first time such a wide selection of U2 memorabilia was available to collectors, organisers said. Among the more than 200 items sold were Jimi Hendrix's 1966 Red Fender Mustang guitar, which fetched $US400,000 ($A478,800), former US President Bill Clinton's saxophone ($US54,000/$A64,600) and a pair of John Lennon's round, blue-tinted sunglasses ($US30,000/$A36,000).
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