ABOVE: More than 500 baskets were donated for the annual American Cancer Society charity auction/basket raffle held Sunday in the Tamaqua Area High School gym. Among the top prizes were a money bag containing $1,000, a laptop computer, a vacation to Myrtle Beach, S.C., and a 55-inch television. RON GOWER/SPECIAL TO THE TIMES NEWS

RIGHT: Joe Krushinsky, Telethon Chairman of the American Cancer Society, and Mary Ann Dulaney, auction chairman of the ACS, with prizes for the annual charity auction/basket raffle of the ACS.