Aux.il.ia.ry –adjective
Providing supplementary or additional help and support.
(The Oxford Dictionary)
Yellow tags will flutter everywhere on Friday, September 19,
when the GRMC Auxiliary hosts its annual Tag Day.
This event has been a tradition for 90 years where area
residents are asked to make a donation in exchange for the bright yellow tags.
The tradition of Tag Day began in the 1920s as a fundraiser
for Grinnell General Hospital. It started as “Balloon Day” and all contributors
received a brightly colored balloon. Downtown businesses were generous donors
and had many balloons decorating their store windows. Hospital archives note that on the day of the
annual event, the city was “blooming with balloons.” It was not until the days
of World War II and the shortage of rubber that paper tags replaced the
colorful balloons.
Tag Day supports the auxiliary’s projects every year as they
have for generations. Funding for the Grinnell Regional Babies Room program for
new mothers, hospital tours with area first-graders, and an extensive
healthcare scholarship program are among the ongoing projects supported by the
auxiliary. This is all done in addition to their goal to be a positive
influence on the patient experience at GRMC through patient and volunteer
services.
Additionally, Tag Day and all GRMC Auxiliary fundraisers
help them raise funds toward their pledge of $150,000 for the Moving at the
Speed of Life campaign.
Area residents from all the communities in the GRMC service
area are encouraged to stop at participating businesses or collection places to
make a donation. Tables will be set up in Brooklyn, Grinnell, Montezuma,
Toledo, and Victor. Tags will be sold at GRMC clinics in Lynnville, in Toledo
at Deer Creek Health Center, and in Victor. Patriot Bank in Brooklyn will have
volunteers selling tags. In Grinnell, look for auxiliary members at GRMC, Casa
Margaritas, Fareway, HyVee, Lonnski’s,
McNally’s, Medicap Pharmacy, Pioneer Bookstore, Pizza Ranch, Post Office,
Saints Rest, Walmart.
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