In Unalakleet, auction unifies community in low times

A charity auction in Unalakleet over Thanksgiving weekend raised nearly $20,000, with all the proceeds going to needy folks and worthy causes in the village of just over 700. The community is pulling together amid half a dozen recent deaths in just the last month.
Hand-made booties and gloves were some of the big-ticket items. Although the night’s final item was a quilt that sold for $1,200. Photo: Zachariah Hughes.
It’s about 11 p.m., and a crowd of a hundred or so people is sp