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UnityPoint Health-Marshalltown Auxiliary Quilt Auction Nov. 1

T-R PHOTO BY MIKE DONAHEY Pictured is one of the many quilts submitted by Central Iowa quilters on display at the UnityPoint Health-Marshalltown Medical Park. The quilts will be sold by silent auction at a 6 p.m. Nov. 1 fund-raising event at the Medical Park sponsored by the UnityPoint Health-Marshalltown Auxiliary.

Credit the UnityPoint Health-Marshalltown Auxiliary for working to keep the momentum going.

With a recent sell-out of 1,000 hand-made chicken pot pies earlier this month, the auxiliary is gearing-up for a 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Nov. 1 quilt auction at the Medical Park, 55 Central Iowa Dr. — across from Marshalltown Community College.

The event is free of charge and open to the public.

Refreshments will be served and the auxiliary will be selling fudge. Auxiliary spokesperson Susan Eberhart of Montour said the group wants to duplicate the successful 2017 auction which raised hundreds of dollars.

Those funds were applied to patient care.

Proceeds from the Nov. 1 silent auction will be used to purchase new wheelchairs, Eberhart said.

Talented quilters who submitted their work by the Oct. 1 deadline will have to wait and see until Nov. 1 if their efforts will be rewarded.

Best of show earns $500, second place $250 and third place $150.

The quilts are on display at the Medical Park.

Auxiliary members are Eberhart, Becky Caster, Christina Cheville, Debi Estabrook, Karen Giarratano, Rena Holmes, Judy Lindholm, Anne Paullus, Peterson, Barb Rasmussen and Peggy Schoer.

For approximately 66 years funds from auxiliary fundraising initiatives have been used to help purchase a new ambulance, a blanket warmer, free mammograms, iPads for pediatric patients needing diversions from painful procedures and many nursing scholarships.

Additionally, funds have been used to construct the east-side courtyard and “Tribute to Caregivers” statue, both at the downtown campus.

In recent years the Marshalltown hospital, previously known as Central Iowa Healthcare, embarked on an energetic plan to solidify its viability by the construction of a multi-million dollar outpatient center at the Medical Park, making auxiliary contributions all the more important.

The Medical Park opened in mid-August 2015. The auxiliary’s roots go back to the Evangelical Deaconess Hospital Auxiliary, established Nov. 1, 1952, according to T-R archives.

Later, the Mercy St. Thomas Hospital Auxiliary, which was formed Sept. 5, 1952, joined forces with The Evangelical Hospital’s Auxiliary (formerly Evangelical Deaconess Hospital Auxiliary) in 1970, when the two hospitals merged to become the Marshalltown Area Community Hospital.

In 1985, MACH became MMSC, and the organization was renamed MMSC Auxiliary.

For more information, contact Eberhart at 641-751-5507.

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Contact Mike Donahey at

641-753-6611 or mdonahey@timesrepublican.com

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