Hospital hosts 21st annual fundraiser event
<p>Brady Goss and his band kept the evening lively during the Festival of Trees Gala 2015.</p>
<p>Lori and Neil Benson dance to the music of the Brady Goss Band Saturday during the Festival of Trees Gala 2015.</p>
<p>Ruth Fenn and friends Festival of Trees Gala 2015.</p>
<p>Phillip A. Barr 82</p>
<p>JoAn and Mike Cuffe Festival of Trees Gala 2015.</p>
<p>One of the many trees auctioned off during the Festival of Trees Gala 2015.</p>
Gala Cheer
<p>Krysten Mossburg with one of the many gift baskets raffled off during the Festival of Trees Gala 2015.</p>
<p>Patricia Ryan Morford, emcee of Festival of Tree Gala 2015.</p>
The Cabinet Peaks Medical Center Foundation held its 21st annual Festival Gala & Fundraiser at the Libby Memorial Events Center Saturday evening, drawing a crowd estimated at more than 300 to help support the foundation’s mission fund.
“The Gala has become a community tradition in south Lincoln County, and it’s the Foundation’s biggest fundraiser of the year,” said foundation executive director Kate Stephens. “We truly enjoy seeing everyone come together during the holiday season to support our medical center and help raise funds so that CPMC can continue to provide quality care to its patients. This year, the money raised at the Gala will be put toward the Foundation’s Mission Fund which was created to financially assist the hospital in its mission to provide quality, compassionate care through the purchase of capital equipment. When we moved into this wonderful new facility, we brought with us most of the equipment from the other hospital. As is always the case in medicine and technology, this equipment needs to be updated and upgraded on a continual basis. The Foundation’s Mission Fund is designed to help do just that.”
Stephens said the final fundraising totals aren’t in yet, but she estimates the community raised approximately $50,000 for the foundation at the event.