More than 100 people attended the Woodmoor Elementary PACE (Parents Active in Cooperative Education) auction March 25 at the Januik Winery in Woodinville, and more than 100 silent auction times were bid on from homemade cards to car detailing to Covington Winery’s dinner and barrel tasting. PACE raised close to $8,000 for its program.

Pictured from left to right are: Colleen Devine, co-coordinator of fund-raising for PACE at Woodmoor; Kitty McClaire, vice chair; Mel Zirker, chair; Cami Fink, co-coordinator of fund-raising.

All proceeds from the event will directly benefit the Woodmoor PACE Program, which has been in the community for more than 40 years. Though the program is housed at Woodmoor, it also draws from other elementary schools in the district, including first- through sixth-graders from Kokanee, Moorlands, Fernwood, Maywood Hills and Canyon Creek.

PACE is a community of parents, children and teachers active in cooperative education to enrich and deepen learning, independence and leadership, reads a press release. Through parental volunteer hours and additional fund-raising, they are able to provide their students with more hands-on learning and supplemental educators for programs such as drama, Spanish, curriculum-based field trips, community outreach, environmental education and an expanded science program.