Hot Havana Nights! It's getting close

Get your ticket orders in soon and join the other 190 families, teachers, and staff who are coming out for the St. Raphael Catholic School Annual Auction on Friday, February 25 at the Mirror Lake Lyceum in downtown St. Petersburg.

It will be a night of great food, incredible friends, endless fun, and phenomenal fund raising for our school.

Individual tickets are $55 each and includes dinner and beer and wine. Tickets will be available after 9:30 a.m. And 5:30 p.m. Masses this Sunday and February 20. You also can complete order forms and turn them in to the school office. You can download an order form at the Hot Havana Night Web site.

There will be a Live Auction and a Silent Auction, with amazing prizes on which to bid.

Among the prizes in the Live Auction: Bid on a three-night getaway to Holmes Beach on Anna Maria Island. You’ll have the use of a six-bedroom, 4.5-bath luxury home less than a block from the Gulf of Mexico. Click on the photo at right to enlarge it.

It’s just one of many unusual auction items at Hot Havana Nights. Check the Live Auction page for more details.

Among other things, the Silent Auction features a beautiful sterling silver beaded chain and pendant with the amazing "Crucifixion" artwork slide.

A full auction catalog will be published on the Hot Havana Nights Web site by next Wednesday. Check for details.

After dinner and the auctions, a live DJ will provide music for dancing the night away. Complimentary hand-rolled Cuban cigars will be offered as well. A full liquor cash bar will remain open with all proceeds going to SRCS.

There are only 11 $50 raffle tickets left. Win and you have your choice of any Live Auction item or $2,500 in cash! You need not be present to win! Only 100 tickets will be sold!

Check the Hot Havana Nights Facebook event page to learn more.