MCC relief auction tops $204,000

Fairgrounds hosts 45th annual event

Auctioneer Kelly Kliewer, with help from several others including John Thomas out front, watches for bids during the annual MCC Auction this weekend in Aurora.
Auctioneer Kelly Kliewer, with help from several others including John Thomas out front, watches for bids during the annual MCC Auction this weekend in Aurora.

A tradition of praising God and raising money for global relief efforts resumed this weekend at the Hamilton County Fairgrounds, where hundreds of people from all across Nebraska and the central United States gathered for the annual Mennonite Central Committee relief auction. After last year’s record-setting auction, which was the first live event in three years due to the pandemic pause, organize…