Fifth Annual Designer Handbag Bingo Deemed a Success

: Fr. Justin Wiley, manager of Pastoral Care at CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs, displays 8 handbags about to be won by a table of players at the Hopkins County Health Care Foundation’s 5th Annual Designer Handbag Bingo.

The CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital – Sulphur Springs Volunteer Auxiliary enjoys a night of fellowship and bingo play as one of the luxury bag sponsors for Designer Handbag Bingo.

Tie breakers are nail-biting moments for the crowd at the Health Care Foundation’s Designer Handbag Bingo. A range of emotions is displayed by the winners and losers in this round.

The ladies from The Jypsy Willow pose with Lee Yoder, 3rd from left, who won the bag they sponsored for the Mystery Handbag Raffle.

The Sister Babyz team celebrates the winner of the Louis Vuitton they sponsored in the Designer Handbag Bingo Bonus Game.

The Alliance Bank, Alliance Bank Financial Services, and Galyean Insurance Designer Handbag Bingo players gather around the winner of the YSL bag they sponsored for the 5th Annual Designer Handbag Bingo. The Alliance Bank family of businesses was the title sponsor for the event.

The Hopkins County Health Care Foundation Board of Directors is proud of the funds they funnel back into Hopkins County’s healthcare. They are also proud of the events they sponsor to ensure the means to fund those healthcare initiatives.

This year’s Designer Handbag Bingo, held on August 8, had approximately 583 bingo players in attendance. Given away that night were 33 designer bags and 16 door prizes that included cash, designer bags, gift cards, and other designer goods.

But the most important and impactful part of the night was raising money to benefit local citizens. Funds from Designer Handbag Bingo provide a Free Mammography Clinic to be held in October for uninsured Hopkins County women over the age of 40.

The preliminary income and expenses from the 5^th annual Designer Handbag Bingo show the net proceeds to be $63,000. This amount is 100% due to the support of the local community, donors, sponsors, underwriters, players, and volunteers.

In addition to the Free Mammography Clinic that began in 2019, the Foundation also offers In My Closet which provides free wigs and prosthetics to Hopkins County women undergoing breast cancer treatment. It opened in 2016.

This year, the Foundation added its first initiative aimed at men, free heart calcium scans. Since 2006, the Foundation has set yearly funding priorities to improve local medical technology, equipment, and offerings in Hopkins County. Over 34 projects past projects have been funded including ICU beds, 4D Sonogram equipment, labor and delivery beds, the Gardens at Memorial, CT Scanner, anti-gravity treadmill, and Lucas CPR machines to name a few.

The Hopkins County Health Care Foundation is an IRS-designated 501 (c) 3 non-profit, governed by an all-volunteer board of directors, each of whom lives and works in Hopkins County. All funds raised by the Foundation stay in Hopkins County to benefit its citizens. For more information contact Kayla Price, Executive Director, at 903-438-4799 or [email protected].

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