Auction Winner!

ByJ.S.

Congratulations to Maureen Magee – the winner of the Jamaican Pyrate Hideaway auction!

Maureen can look for’ard to a full week at the private Stone Harbour Villa in Old Fort Bay, Jamaica – and her donation will go to assist some of the grass-roots organizations we support in New Orleans!

Thanks to all who bid; though ye may not have won, yer support is greatly appreciated!

We are extremely grateful to our mates at Stone Harbour Press for their generosity, keeping to the NOLA Pyrate Week code – “Take what ye can, GIVE something back!”

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