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Relay fundraiser a success
CCMH teams raise money at basket bingoBy RACHEL LANE, Staff Writer
POSTED: January 14, 2008
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On Saturday, three Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital surgery relay teams sponsored an evening of Longaberger Basket Bingo at the Vienna Community Building in Jackson Memorial Park.
Carmen L. Hathaway, Senior Community Manager with the American Cancer Society in Parkersburg, said the event was one of the first official fundraisers for the 2008 relay. The first team captain meeting was Thursday.
“There were 21 teams registered and there are many more potential teams,” she said, adding 149 teams participated in the 2007 relay and she thinks this year will have more.
“Our goal is (to raise) $350,000” this year, Hathaway said.
The CCMH surgery teams raise funds throughout the year, Pat Goodwin, one of the team captains, said Saturday.
“We have a few teams that fundraiser all year long... I think it’s a little bit easier on them — there aren’t as many (fundraisers) going on and people give a little bit more,” Hathaway said. “My pockets are always empty because I support them all.”
Goodwin said she expected to raise about $2,000 from Saturday’s bingo fundraiser.
“We do a lot of our fundraisers together,” she said of the three surgery teams from CCMH.
Goodwin said she started the first team in the surgery wing about seven years ago, three years after she had breast cancer. She participated with her daughter the year before she started the team in the surgery ward.
“I was hooked after one year,” Goodwin said. “I think everybody is affected by cancer.”
She said the American Cancer Society has worked hard to fund research into cancer treatments and cures and several scientists they funded have won Nobel Peace Prizes for their work.
Goodwin said the surgery teams sell baked goods, have dinners and raffles to support the American Cancer Society.
“I think people are very supportive in this area,” Goodwin said.
She said most of the bingo prizes and several of the door prizes had Longaberger baskets included.
“They’re very nice prizes,” she said, adding many hospital employees donated the baskets.
Goodwin said she supports other Relay fundraisers, “just to help them raise money.”
Patty Lynch, of Parkersburg, is a walker on a CCMH relay team who was at Saturday’s event. Her team is selling cookbooks as a fundraiser.
“We’re doing good,” she said.
The team started with about 300 books before Christmas and now has about 100. Lynch said she had never played bingo before.
“It’s fun... It’s a good way to raise money,” she said.
Lynch said she had not won a bingo game, but she did get a door prize.
“I looked up and said ‘I’d like to win that’ and they called my number,” Lynch said.
Tammy Moore, of Vienna, a senior Longaberger consultant, helped organize the baskets for the event.
“I always support the groups I work with,” she said. “I enjoy helping groups with fundraisers... especially Relay teams.”
Moore said she loves playing bingo. Basket bingo “is very popular in the area... and people like to support things,” she said.
Hathaway said a list of many Relay fundraisers can be found at http://http://events.cancer.org/rflwoodcountywv.'>http://events.cancer.org/rflwoodcountywv.
“It’s updated often,” she said.
Contact Rachel Lane at r'>rlane@newsandsentinel.com'>rlane@newsandsentinel.com
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