 "For me, Christmas is a time of reflection and looking back on those
people who have made such a great impression on my life," she said.
"Giving in their names to Light Up A Life allows me to share my warm
memories of them with the rest of our community.
"Plus, giving to local health care causes is just one way I share
my many blessings with my neighbors of Logan County."
The annual Light Up A Life campaign at Abraham Lincoln Memorial
Hospital, now in its 20th year of honoring and paying tribute to
loved ones, is now under way. Families and individuals may send
tribute gifts in memory of someone who has died or in honor of
individuals still living. The suggested donation amount is $10 per
name. Proceeds benefit patient care at ALMH.
"We are thankful for your generosity, whether you are beginning a
new tradition or continuing a treasured one," says Marty Ahrends,
executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Healthcare Foundation. "By
honoring your past, you are also investing in the future of local
health care."
Each Light Up A Life tribute directly benefits patient care in
Logan County. Gifts may be designated to purchase medical equipment
at ALMH, fund hospice care with Memorial Home Services, support the
Healthy Communities Partnership or provide general support for
future ALMH projects.
Lincoln Daily News will feature an online listing of Light Up A
Life names, available from late December through the end of January
2009.
Donations received prior to Dec. 2 are compiled and presented in
a special Lincoln Courier insert published on Christmas Eve. The
names of those honored or memorialized will be listed, followed by
names of the donors who gave in their name.
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In addition to the published recognition of names, each person
honored or remembered is represented by a light on the trees and
bushes in front of ALMH, as well as on the Christmas tree inside the
ALMH lobby. Those lights will first be turned on at a brief ceremony
beginning at 6 p.m. on Nov. 29, and they will remain on throughout
the holiday season as a reminder of those most dear to us. After the
ceremony, attendees are invited down to the Woods Cafe for a bowl of
chicken noodle soup or chili, and a holiday sugar cookie.
Weimer says that although her husband, Bob, the first pharmacist
at ALMH, died in 2004 and her children no longer live in Lincoln,
she feels blessed with a wonderful extended family of dear friends
in Logan County.
"They have been like an angel on my shoulder," she says. "At some
time or another, the rest of (my family) worked or volunteered at
ALMH. Many at ALMH simply became part of our family."
Light Up A Life is a program of the Abraham Lincoln Healthcare
Foundation, a not-for-profit entity organized in 1986 to raise funds
for Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital. Donors may send Light Up A
Life gifts to ALHF at 200 Stahlhut Drive. in Lincoln.
More information about the campaign, including a link to a secure
online giving form, is available at www.almh.org.
[Text from file received from
Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital]
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