Sally Morrison might have been the only person in Wareham wishing for rain on Saturday afternoon. If not rain, just for weather that would keep people indoors and watching television, specifically Wareham Community TV's fifth annual Live Auction and Entertainment Night.

The event was an eight-hour long auction show at the Wareham-New Bedford Elks Lodge with live entertainment mixed in. The event auctioned-off donated goods and services for causes for two beneficiaries: The Saints and Singers Chorus, who give free performances across the South Coast and run a music scholarship program, and the Riverside Church in Wareham.

"65 percent of the people who are working the event have been doing it for all five years," said Morrison, who is instrumental in putting the event together every year. She said although there are some hiccups, as to be expected in any eight-hour live broadcast, the show has come a long way in those five years.

Michelle Bowlin, a longtime WCTV member that has provided entertainment and support at the event since its inception, is also the Saints and Singers Chorus' co-director and owner of Music of the Bay, and she helped made things run more smoothly at the event.

"I like giving back," she said, noting that this is the first year the chorus is benefitting from the event.

"There is definitely a learning curve," said Joshua McKiernan, co-director with Saints and Singers Chorus, referring to getting all the items necessary for the auction. He said members of the chorus visited area businesses and even offered up some of their own items and talents to the auction. Auctioned items included a piano, a signed baseball by former Red Sox first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, and various forms of jewelry, art and accessories.

According to Morrison, the most important person of the whole event is Rose Berry of Eastern Bank, who runs the auction office. Morrison described the experience as Berry taking the Eastern Bank on Main Street and moving it for a sleepover at the Elk's Lodge. She said if every performer cancelled, they could still put on the auction, but without Berry, they'd have nothing.

Thankfully though, there were plenty of performances to go around from the likes of the Showstoppers youth entertainment group, singer/songwriter Shaun England and mentalist Mat Rose.

The frontman and MC of the whole show was Scott Record, who like so many others, has been working the event since its first show five years ago.

Record, who for the last three years has shared MC duties with his daughter, Hannah, lives half the year in California and half the year on the South Coast. He said he works many live events such as celebrity golf tournaments and fundraisers for organizations like the Jimmy Fund.

"It's always nice to take part in something for a good cause," he said.