Paradise Resort Estates Residents Made a Big Difference

Special to Welcome Home Winter Texan

Friday, February 16, Paradise Resort Estates in Pharr held its annual in-house Spaghetti Dinner and Charity Auction. It was organized and hosted by our Community Outreach Group. The results exceeded all of our hopes and expectations. Over $11,400 was raised, our best to date! These monies will be divided between five local charities:  Family Ministries, St. Vincent de Paul, Women Together, the RGV Food Bank, and the Paradise Linus Project, which makes and donates over 2000 quilts each year to area schools and organizations.

There was a full crew on hand in the kitchen to create a delicious spaghetti dinner with salad and French bread. Our resident bakers came through with so many choices of dessert squares that over 600 were plated and the rest were auctioned off. Our church donated all costs for the food to be prepped. Payment for a meal was a free-will donation at the door. 

The auction was divided into three areas: A brown-bag auction, where you buy tickets and drop them into the corresponding brown bag for the item you want to bid on; a silent auction, which allows you to outbid your friend and neighbor on paper; and a live auction, with our resident retired auctioneer. So exciting! All items in the auctions were donated by our residents–new, gently used, and handmade items and so many baked and other food items. Everyone was so generous!  

With the majority of the Resort residents attending this event, it is one of the highlights of our Winter Texan season!  Everyone is so happy to give back to those in need in this area many of us call our “home away from home.”  We are all very proud of our Paradise family.

Our Community Outreach Group has an unofficial motto: “Be kind! Do good! Make a difference!” And Paradise Resort did!