 Jane, we're here with the 2014 Painting for a Purpose auction. Tell us what's going on here tonight. Oh, it's so exciting. We have 35 clocks that we have been painted by local artists going to be live auctioned and then we have about 10 clocks that are going to be silent auctioned and we have, oh, lots of different things painted by lots of different people, local people that are in the silent auction and all the proceeds from tonight go into our philanthropy for students to apply for grants to improve their community, the Portland Public Schools children. There's a wide variety of styles and forms on the clocks. Were there any guidelines or could they do anything they wanted? Anything they wanted. Artists do not want any guidelines so we didn't give them any. The only thing we needed was that it was going to be a clock. For those in our audience who don't know, tell us a little bit about the background of Painting for a Purpose. Well, it's really quite a good background. Five years ago, Tina and I started to paint chairs together and we thought, what could we do with these? And we thought, well, we could always sell them for ourselves or, I know, let's go ahead and have a lot of people paint with us and for us and we'll have an auction and the money will go into a philanthropy for students from Portland Schools to apply for grants to improve their community. Both Tina and I, being classroom teachers, know the benefit when students actually get an idea and have it go with money behind it so it will go into fruition so they can see their idea. What kind of projects do the students do? Well, one project that I recall is students from Lyseth, I believe it was Lyseth, wanted more lettuce in their lunches so they wrote us a grant and it got approved and we sent them money for them to build lettuce gardens so they were able to put more lettuce in their garden, lettuce in their lunches. Kathy, tell us a little bit about your project. So we have an art club up Portland High School. Our teacher, Barbara Loring, had said, Tina Edwards has brought these fish to you guys and like for you guys to paint them for, painting for a purpose for the auction at DeMillo's and we took that opportunity and so I just was so invested in decorating these wooden fish that I took most of them home with me and so I used watercolors, colored pencil, a bit of acrylic and tempera and they came out looking really nice so I'm glad I could contribute this auction and I heard that the Special Ed class had made them in a wood workshop class and so I'm really happy that having my work and having pictures sent of what came out of them now, it just makes me feel that I did a really good thing. Tell us a little bit about the relationship between painting for a purpose and the Portland Public School system. Well the relationship started over four years ago when Tina and Jane got together and looked at what they wanted to do in terms of supporting and making a difference in Portland Public Schools and with the projects that they were working on and their passion, love for painting and so out of painting for a purpose was an opportunity for Tina and Jane to support student-led service learning projects in Portland Public Schools. This relationship has grown over the last four years where they raised over $13,000 to support over 25 student-led service learning projects and to me what that means is that they allowed our students to be empowered where our students can identify a problem, find a solution and take action utilizing the resources for painting for a purpose that funds their particular grants. It really shows them that as Margaret Mead has stated, never doubt that a few committed citizens could change the world because indeed that's all we ever have and Tina and Jane have actually did that for our students and allowed our students to be empowered to take action so hopefully they'll learn, our students will learn from their effort and begin to think more globally about what they can do to take action to improve the lives of not only families right here in Portland but even beyond. The artists who do the work, are they donating their work? Yes, they're definitely donating their work. There are a lot of local known artists actually and they are donating their work for us. It's a quite interesting connection, the artist to the students and back around again. Yes, absolutely and also just because we call it painting for a purpose it really, when the grants are written doesn't have to have anything to do with art at all. It's for any student from Portland Schools. If people want more information about the organization or applying for grant, where do they go? Well they can easily go to our website paintingforapurpose.net and we're also on Facebook under the same paintingforapurpose.net.