Postville area farmer directs $2,500 donation to Veterans Memorial Health Care Foundation
Brandon Guese of rural Postville recently nominated Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon to receive an America’s Farmers Grow Communities Monsanto Fund donation of $2,500. Pictured is Guese (far right) presenting the check to Veterans Memorial Health Care Foundation members, left to right, Nona Sawyer, Sue Blagsvedt, Jane Dietrich, Ardie Kuhse, Nancy Schoh, Dennis Lyons and Veterans Memorial Hospital Administrator Mike Myers. The donation will help the organization purchase a blanket warmer for the ever-growing number of patients receiving CT and MRI scans at the hospital, keeping them warm and comfortable during those tests. Submitted photo.
The Veterans Memorial Hospital Health Care Foundation has received a $2,500 donation from the America’s Farmers Grow Communities program, sponsored by the Monsanto Fund and directed by local farmer Brandon Guese of rural Postville. The donation will help the organization purchase a blanket warmer for patients receiving CT scans and MRI scans at the hospital, keeping them warm and comfortable during those tests.
“Every year when Monsanto asks me to nominate an organization, I always mention Veterans Memorial Hospital,” stated Guese. “It’s so important that we have a hospital here, so it is always an easy decision each year to recommend them. I’m glad they received it this year.”
Veterans Memorial Hospital serves over 20,000 people in the Allamakee and northern Clayton County area. The numbers of people receiving these MRI and CT tests at the hospital has greatly increased these last few years.
For six years, America’s Farmers Grow Communities has collaborated with farmers to donate over $22 million to more than 8,000 community organizations across rural America. Winning farmers will direct donations to nonprofits to help fight rural hunger, purchase life saving fire and EMS equipment, support ag youth leadership programs, buy much needed classroom resources, and so much more.
America’s Farmers Grow Communities partners with farmers to support local nonprofit causes that positively impact farming communities across rural America. Grow Communities is one program in the America’s Farmers community outreach effort, sponsored by the Monsanto Fund. Other programs include America’s Farmers Grow Ag Leaders, which encourages rural youth to remain in agriculture and provides $1,500 college scholarships to high school and college students pursuing ag-related degrees and America’s Farmers Grow Rural Education, which works with farmers to nominate rural school districts to compete for $10,000 and $25,000 math and science grants. Visit www.AmericasFarmers.com to learn more.
The Monsanto Fund, the philanthropic arm of the Monsanto Company, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening the communities where farmers and Monsanto Company employees live and work.
