Auxiliary of Veterans Memorial Hospital to hold Garage Sale June 3-5

The members of the Auxiliary of Veterans Memorial Hospital (VMH) will be holding their fourth annual garage sale in the FreedomBank Community Room in Waukon in conjunction with Waukon City-Wide Garage Sales. The Auxiliary garage sale will be open Wednesday, June 3, from 1 p.m. - 6 p.m, continuing Thursday, June 4, from 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. and will conclude Friday, June 5 with hours of 8 a.m. - 1 p.m.

This Auxiliary garage sale will feature clean, usable household items in good working condition.  No clothing, shoes or electronics will be offered. Most all items will be offered for a free-will donation. All the money the Auxiliary receives goes back to the hospital for equipment such as an OB birthing bed, an ER cart, an EKG machine, a mammography viewbox, the Maternity Services Birthing Tub, flat screen TVs for patient rooms, a fetal heart monitor and infant warmer, blanket warmers, outpatient treatment room renovations, carbon monoxide testing machines, patient weigh beds, infant hearing screening machine, a NuStep machine, a stove for Nutrition Services and have helped fund the new 3D digital mammography machine and surgery sterilizer. This year the funds will be used to purchase a new electric exam table for the Waukon Clinic.

The Auxiliary of Veterans Memorial Hospital is devoted to providing the hospital and its patients and visitors with many services. The Auxiliary also holds annual fundraisers such as the Women’s Wellness Night out, the Pillow-Perk in mid-October, the Gift Case at the hospital and their annual membership drive each July.    

For more information, call Auxiliary President, Bev Larson-Needham at 563-568-8168 or Erin Berns at Veterans Memorial Hospital at 563-568-5600.