UPDATE: PHOTOS: Penguin Paradise, Ranches and a Surf Shack

Update: Coastside Children's Programs Executive Director Agnes Chan reports that the organization raised $7,000 from their online auction and gingerbread house silent auction.

The winners of the gingerbread house contest are:

Children’s 1st Place: Ava’s Hawaiian Hut (Laurie Chamber, Mom)

Children’s 2nd Place: The Holiday Penguins (The Dolphin Club)

Children’s 3rd Place: The world we play on (Coastside Children's Programs El Granada)

Children’s People’s Choice: The Holiday Penguins

Home Cook 1st Place: Christmas in Bavaria (Debbie Aliamus)

Home Cook 2nd Place: Up, Up and Away to the North Pole (Caitlin Yuen)

Home Cook 3rd Place: Nightmare Before Christmas (Heather Theroff)

Home Cook People’s Choice: Christmas in Bavaria

Professional 1st Place: California Country Cottage (Jenny Dove)

Professional 2nd Place: The Heart of San Francisco (Cynthia Falatic)

Professional People’s Choice: California Country Cottage

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Youth, home cooks, and professional cooks all contributed to a gingerbread house contest sponsored by Half Moon Bay's .

The entries now on display at the will be sold to the highest bidder in a silent auction going on through Saturday. All proceeds will benefit low income children enrolled at Coastside Children's Programs.

A panel of judges will pick the winners in three categories: culinary professional, home cook, and children.

Winners will be announced at the hotel's tree lighting and holiday open house scheduled for this Saturday (no fee for admission or valet parking) from 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

The event will include Christmas carols sung by the Aragon School Choir, a visit from Santa and complimentary cookies, cider and hot chocolate.

Our second of two photo galleries taken of this year's entries are posted in the media box to the right. See more gingerbread houses on display in the first part of the photo gallery posted .

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