Jessica Brown and her Big Sister, Meg Hooper, snack as they finish their edible house in this 2006 file photo. Last year's Eldridge Gingerbread Festival & Auction raised $28,000, after expenses.
Parker Weber, left, her mother, Amy Weber, Lawrence, and her 18-month-old brother, Brady Weber, view entries two days before the 2005 Big Brothers/Big Sisters Gingerbread House Auction. This year's event begins Saturday at the Eldridge Hotel's Crystal Ballroom, 701 Mass.
Judges Nicholas Lodge, left, of the International School of Sugar and Confectionary Arts in Atlanta; Frances Burnett, center, of Johnson & Wales University in Charlotte, N.C.; and Colette Peters, of Colette's Cakes in New York City, look over an entry in the 2006 Gingerbread House Competition on Monday at Grove Park Inn in Asheville, N.C.
James Harader-Ellet, a Schwegler School student, constructs a gingerbread house to sell in the 2004 Gingerbread House Festival and Auction for Big Brothers/Big Sisters. Public viewing times for the festival, held at the Eldridge Hotel, 701 Mass., will begin Friday.
From left, Helen Hawkins, Jane Dennington, Aerial Berry and Christopher Julian admire Julian's gingerbread house in the 2004 Gingerbread House Auction. The event is a fundraiser for Big Brothers/Big Sisters.
Brad Tate and his 8-year-old daughter, Sophie, check out the graham houses made by children for the 2003 Gingerbread Festival and Auction at the Eldridge Hotel, 701 Mass. Gingerbread houses were auctioned Tuesday to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Douglas County.
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