Thank you

The Drumheller Area Health Foundation would like to thank all those who made our 2011 ‘Art in the Badlands’ successful. We were able to earn over $10,000 for the Pediatrics Vital Signs Monitor for the Drumheller Medical Centre. Thank you Drumheller for all you do.

Particular thanks go to the contributors to our fundraiser.

99.5 Drum FM; Alberta Treasury Branch, Drumheller Branch; Athens Café & Greek Restaurant; Bits & Pieces Keepsake Quilting, Ms. Tara Semchuk, Owner; Mr. & Mrs. Alan Avramenko; Ms. Leila Bjerland & Mr. Dan Weibe of WB Studios; The Brick Drumheller, Janice Burke, Owner of Over the Rainbow; Caracol Clay Studios; The Calgary Flames Club; Calgary Stampeder Football Club; Mrs. Deanna Chambers; Drumheller Dragons Hockey Club; Mrs. Dianne Faulter; Carolyn Feir; CIBC Drumheller; Drumheller Co-op Ltd.; Drumheller Elks #54; Grant’s Oilfield Services, Inc.; Mrs. Nancy Guntrip; Gus’s Corner Restaurant, Inc.; H B Industries (Drumheller) Ltd.; Mr. Robert Haines; Highway 9 Express, Ltd.; IGA Drumheller; Mr. Jim Justinick; Mrs. Alice Klassen of JoAl Styles, Linden; Gary & Bev Krabsen; Sharen Krushel; Mark’s Work Wearhouse, Terry Kuhl, Store Operator; Mrs. Amy Kuschke; Martha Lynn of Touch of Class Quilting; Leanne Madsen, owner of the General Store at Deer Valley Implements Ltd.; Ms. Sherryl McBride of Marlin Travel; Mrs. Christeen Neffgen; Mrs. Rosalie Nimmo; Ms. Ellen Nobel; Mr. Mark Notland, owner of Sears Drumheller; Old Grouch’s; Q91 Country, Drumheller; RBC Royal Bank of Canada, Drumheller Branch; R&J Specialties, Inc.; Rosebud Theatre Group; Pioneer Trail Society; Dave & Lori Powel, owners of Sports Room Source for Sports; Mrs. Liselotte Rolf; Terry Ruth; Mr. John Ryning; Ms. E. Gerda Sallows; The Drumheller Mail, Mr. Ossie Sheddy, Publisher; SJ Fashions; Scapa Log Works; Mrs. Joan Snyder, Starland County Municipal Offices; Mrs. Carol Todor; Michael Todor; Barbara Travis, The Tyrrell Museum; Mr. Luigi Vescarelli of Canalta; Patrice Wolf, owner of the Inn and Spa at Heartwood; Mr. Trevor Woodford of Napa Auto Parts Drumheller, the Yavis Family of Yavis Family Restaurant, among others.

To our volunteers who stepped in and helped where needed, a heartfelt thanks to you all: Joan Snyder; Susan Schmidt of ATB; Cathy Morse of the Chop Shop; Monica Sleep; Yvonne Friedley; Lynn Zacharuk; Betty Montgomery; Maxine Popovich; Delphine Viczko; June Currie; Arlene Hunter; Sheila Richmond; Kathy Dudley; Corrie Fortner; Brian Ames and our fine young auctioneer, Travis Cawiezel.

Special thanks to all the people in the maintenance, housekeeping and dietary departments of the hospital. You were SO helpful and willing.

Lastly, to those of the community who came out and supported us with donations and purchases and all those who I may have missed that helped make our event a success – many thanks. We couldn’t have done it without you!

Art In The Badlands will be on June 23, 2011!!

(for pictures of the submissions, click on the title of this blog)
Last year, submissions from our artist supporters and local businesses garnered a whopping $20,000 for much needed Laparoscopic Equipment. That equipment has been ordered and will soon be in service.

This year the proceeds will go toward the purchase of a Pediatrics Vital Signs Monitor
for the smallest members of our community.
Please join us at the Drumheller Health Centre
Thursday, June 23 from 4:00pm to 7:30pm. The Silent Auction opens at 4:00pm, the Live Auction is at 5:30 pm featuring Local Artists. Silent Auction winners will be announced between 5:30 and the end of the live auction. Admission is free. You must sign in and receive a bidder’s card to be eligible to bid. Refreshments are available for your enjoyment for a fundraising fee.

For more information: contact the Secretary’s Office by calling 403-820-7266,
Email: Linda.Ames@albertahealthservices.ca,
or check out our pictures on our Face book page located at: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Drumheller-Area-Health-Foundation/129598297065194 (See last year’s submissions there too!)

Linda Ames
 your Foundation
Secretary

Summer is quickly getting away from us all. After the ‘Art in the Badlands’ fundraising event, I spent a few weeks with my new granddaughter. Now it’s back to business as usual!

The ‘Art in the Badlands’ fundraising Auction was truly a wonderful success. With the support of the businesses, artists, craftspeople and all our neighbors, we were able to raise over $20,000 for Laparoscopic Equipment for our hospital’s Operating Room. Thanks goes especially to the contributors that helped make our event better than ever! All together, we had 40 submissions for the Fine Art, Quilts and Crafts Live Auction, 32 submissions for Silent Auction, and 4 really great Raffle items. Admission was free and there was Strawberry Shortcake, punch and coffee provided by the Drumheller Co-op, Extra Foods, IGA, Drumheller Wal-Mart and our wonderful volunteers.

The weather cooperated (after a delay due to rain on the original scheduled date) and all was sold on June 24th. The submissions were displayed in the hospital’s front lobby shop and on Facebook. We hope to be able to do the same next year.
Next year our tentative date for the 3rd Annual ‘Art in the Badlands’ Auction will be June 24th (a Thursday again). We’ll do it rain or shine – outdoors if it’s nice, indoors if it isn’t.
The Drumheller Area Health Foundation would like to thank the following for their Fine Art and Craft submissions:
Dan Weibe of WB Studios; Leila Bjerland of WB Studios; Janet Grabner of Caracol Clay Studio ; Rosalee Nimmo; Christeen Neffgen; Bertram Drilling Corporation; Mr. John Ryning; Mike Todor; Gwen Hampton of Mountain View Credit Union-Morrin Branch; Royal Sproule; Dianne Faulter; Home - Town Realty, Inc; Robert Haines; Amy Kuskee; Mark's Work Wearhouse; Harry and Di Stack of Scapa Log Works; Jane Dau; Bits and Pieces Keepsake Quilting; Nancy Guntrip; Gerda Sallows; Pioneer Trail Society; and Martha Lynn of Touch of Class Custom Quilting.

We’d also like to thank the following for their support by providing sponsorship, the Silent Auction submissions and the Raffle Items:

99.5 Drum FM; Gus and June Mattheis of Alberta Cottage Rest A-While Bed and Breakfast; Alberta Treasury Branch, Drumheller Branch; Mr. Nick Schinnour of Auto Sense Auto Parts/Allied Distributors; Joyce Bell; Bertram Drilling Corporation; Bill Cross Men's Shop; BMO - Bank Of Montreal, Drumheller Branch; The Calgary Flames Club; The Calgary Stampeders; The Canadian Badlands Passion Play; Chinook Credit Union of Drumheller; The Chop Shop; Curves of Drumheller; Drumheller Centre of Natural Foods; Dr. Ivan Chan of Drumheller Chiropractic Centre; Drumheller Co-Op Ltd; Drumheller Dragons Hockey Club - Drumheller Minor Hockey Association; Drumheller Equipment Sales; Drumheller Mail; Extra Foods, Drumheller; Gus's Corner Restaurant Inc.; H and H Optical (Drumheller) Ltd.; Highway 9 Express, Ltd. ; Karen Hansen; IGA Drumheller; Sherri and Don Tchir of Kneehill Creek Trees; Bev and Gary Krabsen; Darrell and Barb Steeves of Looking Good Fashions; Dr. and Mrs. Boris Nahornick; Old Grouch's; Janice Burke of Over The Rainbow Giftware; Q91 Country, Drumheller; RBC- Royal Bank Of Canada, Drumheller Branch; R and J Flowers (Specialties, Inc); Reality Bytes Of Drumheller; Rosebud Theatre; Cindy Malmberg of The Rosebud Theatre Gift Shop; The Royal Tyrell Museum Cooperating Society; Mr. Arsen Gincher of Shoppers Drug Mart, Drumheller Store #2346; SJ Fashions, Inc.; Joan Snyder;  Dave and Lori Powell of The Sports Room Source For Sports; Doug and Carol Stanford; Starland County; Strings and Things Drumheller; Wade's Jewellery Ltd;  Wave Electronics; Westergard Motors Drumheller; Yavis Family Restaurant; and many anonymous donors, Thanks so very much!

A huge thank-you goes to our tireless volunteers who answered questions in the display centre for the weeks prior to the auction and helped throughout the event:
Monica Sleep; Yvonne Friedley; Lynn Zacharuk; Maxine Popovich; Delphine Viczko; Rita Pallesen; Betty Montgomery and June Currie.

Special thanks to
Joan Snyder and Don Pontifex who organized all the art and silent auction submissions; Kathy Dudley for her tireless assistance throughout the planning and implementation of the event; Linda Krieger who coordinated the volunteers; Aaron Krabsen, who tickled the keyboard; Dr. Neffgen (maestro extraordinaire); Skip McArthur, our tireless auctioneer; Lisa Simmil and her recreation therapy assistants; and the wonderful Maintenance and Food Service workers who made things run so smoothly.

Let’s do this again next year!

Come to the 'Art in the Badlands' Auction

Thursday afternoon, June 17th, 2010 from 4 to 7 pm (Alternate Rain Date: Thursday, June 24, 2010) at the Drumheller Health Centre Recreation Therapy Garden.

· Bidder sign-up starts at 4:00pm.
· Silent Auction Items for bid from 4:00 to 5:00pm
· Live Art Auction at 5:30pm

There will be a Strawberry Shortcake fundraiser tea and live music.

Featuring Local Artists!

Come bid on art pieces, Quilts, and other goodies!

Proceeds will go toward the purchase of Laparoscopic equipment for the Operating Room.

Come and join the DRUMHELLER AREA HEALTH FOUNDATION and the DRUMHELLER HEALTH CENTRE for an afternoon of art and entertainment!

For more information, call us at (403) 820-7844.