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Warsaw Health Fund Drive raises more than $2,000 for ambulance service
By Cindy Iutzi/Gate City Staff Writer
WARSAW, Ill. - The citizens of Warsaw, Ill., support their ambulance and other health-related services every year with volunteerism and funding.
Janice Vradenburg, chair of the Warsaw Health Fund Drive, handed a check for $2,146 to Leo Ancelet, who heads the Warsaw Ambulance Service.
“Usually the ambulance gets about 50 percent (of the fund drive total),” she said. “This year we went over.”
Every Vradenburg mails from 500 to 600 letters to residents that ask for donations. This year, she received help with stuffing fund drive envelopes from Chuck Porter's Boy Scout Troop. The Boy Scouts came to fund drive headquarters (Vradenburg's home), helped with the envelopes and devoured the treats she gave them, she said.
The fund drive letters list the names of the charities the fund solicits for and residents decide how much money they want to donate to which cause.
“Over the years we've added the ambulance service, Hancock County Volunteers for Diabetes, March of Dimes, the American Lung Association and HUGS,” Vradenburg said.
HUGS is the acronym for Helping Us Give Support, a support group for cancer patients and their families and friends.
In addition to those non-profit organizations, residents are offered the opportunity to donate to Hancock County Red Cross, American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association.
“We use this money for equipment and things like that we need,” Ancelet said.
The Warsaw Health Fund Drive donation will be put in a fund overseen by Alta Dicks, ambulance treasurer.
The drive raised a total of $3,780 distributed over the following funds: Ambulance, $2,146; Hancock County Red Cross, $378; American Cancer Society, $275.50; American Heart Association, $275; Hancock County Volunteer for Diabetes, $210; HUGS, $190; American Lung Association, $125; March of Dimes, $98; and postage, $83.
Dicks said people also give memorials to the ambulance service.
Warsaw residents are generous with volunteer hours, too. The ambulance service has 11 drivers and 18 EMTs.
A recent EMT class in Carthage, Ill., will produce a few more.
“Five from Warsaw are waiting to take the state test,” said Perry Cameron, coordinator of the Hancock County Ambulance Service.
Janice Vradenburg, chair of the Warsaw Health Fund Drive, handed a check for $2,146 to Leo Ancelet, who heads the Warsaw Ambulance Service.
“Usually the ambulance gets about 50 percent (of the fund drive total),” she said. “This year we went over.”
Every Vradenburg mails from 500 to 600 letters to residents that ask for donations. This year, she received help with stuffing fund drive envelopes from Chuck Porter's Boy Scout Troop. The Boy Scouts came to fund drive headquarters (Vradenburg's home), helped with the envelopes and devoured the treats she gave them, she said.
The fund drive letters list the names of the charities the fund solicits for and residents decide how much money they want to donate to which cause.
“Over the years we've added the ambulance service, Hancock County Volunteers for Diabetes, March of Dimes, the American Lung Association and HUGS,” Vradenburg said.
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In addition to those non-profit organizations, residents are offered the opportunity to donate to Hancock County Red Cross, American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association.
“We use this money for equipment and things like that we need,” Ancelet said.
The Warsaw Health Fund Drive donation will be put in a fund overseen by Alta Dicks, ambulance treasurer.
The drive raised a total of $3,780 distributed over the following funds: Ambulance, $2,146; Hancock County Red Cross, $378; American Cancer Society, $275.50; American Heart Association, $275; Hancock County Volunteer for Diabetes, $210; HUGS, $190; American Lung Association, $125; March of Dimes, $98; and postage, $83.
Dicks said people also give memorials to the ambulance service.
Warsaw residents are generous with volunteer hours, too. The ambulance service has 11 drivers and 18 EMTs.
A recent EMT class in Carthage, Ill., will produce a few more.
“Five from Warsaw are waiting to take the state test,” said Perry Cameron, coordinator of the Hancock County Ambulance Service.
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