MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) – The Superior Health Foundation (SHF) hosted its tenth annual gala stay and in-person Saturday night time.
“It’s simply thrilling to see folks from all throughout the Higher Peninsula. , we actually missed them final 12 months,” mentioned SHF Government Director Jim LaJoie.
After internet hosting the occasion nearly in 2020, this 12 months featured greater than 300 attendees filling Northern Michigan College’s Northern Middle ballroom.
“For tonight, we’re going to have 5 hours of affection. There’s going to be plenty of love unfold on this room, as a result of we’re proud to be right here, proud to work with our companion Dial Assist — unbelievable group that does so many great issues in the neighborhood,” LaJoie mentioned.
Friends mingled and took half within the prize wheel, prize containers and 20 silent auctions.
Ten-thousand {dollars} in funding obtained by the SHF go to their companion Dial Help — which is a non-profit disaster middle serving the Higher Peninsula.
“Dial Assist goes to make use of their {dollars} to go to the ‘Communities that Care’ organizations throughout the U.P., and it’ll be used to work with kids’s psychological well being points,” defined LaJoie.
“We’re going to be performing some suicide intervention actions, some pro-social actions within the totally different counties, in addition to work on recruitment,” mentioned Dial Assist Government Director Rebecca Crane.
The Superior Well being Basis mentioned it’s near elevating a record-breaking quantity on this 12 months’s gala.
“If we get minimal bids on all these (20 silent auctions), we do nicely with our prize wheel, we do nicely with our lock field, we’re on the verge of netting $100,000 this 12 months, which might be a primary within the historical past of the Superior Well being Basis. We’re proper on the doorstep, and with the great assist of the folks right here at the moment and people at house bidding, we’re going to get there,” LaJoie mentioned.
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