Selma Habitat For Humanity is offering people a chance to get a taste of Selma and help out someone in need in the process.

Selma Habitat’s Taste of Selma and Food Testing Auction will take place Thursday, March 15 at 6:15 p.m. in the Carl C. Morgan Convention Center.

Tickets for Habitat’s ninth annual auction event are $15 for one ticket and $25 for two tickets.

Nina Capps, executive director of Selma Habit for Humanity, said the funds raised from the auction will go toward helping the organization build more homes for those in need.

“The funds will go toward building the next house or refurbishing a home,” Capps said. “We have a small community and nobody’s going to look out for us the way our own people do. We’ve put over 50 people in homes since we started in 1987. That’s pretty good.”

Capps said the event will have a buffet-style dinner with food donated from local restaurants to give attendees a little taste of Selma.

“We have a taste of Selma. All the different restaurants donate food items and everybody gets to go through there and taste what the different restaurants prepare,” Capps said. “Like, the Downtowner donates dressing, the barbecue places donate barbeque, and bread is donated. That way you can fix a barbecue sandwich if you want to. So, it’s fun and it’s different.”

Along with the dinner will be an auction that Capps said will include a combination of different goods and services.

“A lot of the automotive businesses give oil changes or tire rotations—things people need especially right now, veterinarians are real kind and give annual checkups for dogs and cats, Custom Nails donates manicures, beauticians donate haircuts,” Capps said. “Last year we had an Alabama football donated with Nick Saban’s signature on it, and an Auburn one. I’m hoping we can get them again this year.”

For more information, call Capps at 419-2591 or call the Selma Habitat at 872-4409.