 This year, there are a few changes, including two handcrafted trees
-- one in the lobby and one outside the hospital's main entrance.
"These trees signify a return to the event's original intent of
publicly paying tribute to those who are most dear to us," says
Marty Ahrends, executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Healthcare
Foundation, which hosts Light Up A Life. "We will take these trees
with us when we move to our new hospital, creating a new tradition
that has roots in traditions of the past."
Everyone who purchases a tribute gift will have it listed in the
Lincoln Courier and online at Lincoln Daily News. They will also
have an ornament created with their loved one's name on it, as well
as their own. The ornaments will hang on a tree in the hospital
lobby and throughout the Lincoln Room just inside the main entrance.
The suggested donation amount is $10 per name, with proceeds to
benefit patient care at ALMH. Gifts may be designated to purchase
medical equipment at ALMH, fund scholarships for future ALMH health
care providers, support operations of the HOPE Mobile or provide
unrestricted support for future ALMH needs.
Each person honored or remembered is represented by a white light
on the trees and bushes in front of ALMH. Those lights will first be
turned on at a brief outdoor ceremony beginning at 6 p.m. on Dec. 1,
and they will remain on throughout the holiday season as a reminder
of those most dear to us. After the ceremony, attendees are invited
inside the hospital for a bowl of chicken noodle soup or chili.
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Names will be listed at
www.lincolndailynews.com beginning Wednesday, Nov. 25, through
Dec. 23. Each name will be published once on the Wednesday of the
week after the donation is received.
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 315 Eighth St.
in Lincoln or drop them off at ALMH. Giving forms are available at
the hospital information desk.
More information about the
Light Up A Life 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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