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The annual Valley View Auxiliary and Chaplaincy Awards and Appreciation Luncheon took place in the hospital classrooms last week with 50 volunteers attending. It was a 1950s theme with burger baskets and root beer floats. Volunteers devote thousands of hours yearly to Valley View Regional Hospital through auxiliary and chaplaincy services. In the photo left, are Kent Rogers, CEO, Barbie Moon, who had more than 13,000 volunteer service award hours this past year, and Catharine Choate, director of VVRH Auxiliary and Chaplaincy. In the right photo, longtime Valley View Regional Hospital auxiliary volunteer Ruby Firsching and Elvis enjoying the annual appreciation luncheon.

April 26, 2012

VV celebrates volunteers and chaplains

Anonymous The Ada News The Ada Evening News Thu Apr 26, 2012, 07:42 AM CDT

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The Valley View Auxiliary Volunteers and Chaplains gathered on April 17 in the hospital classrooms for the annual awards and appreciation luncheon.

The theme of the event was the Rock ‘n Roll era of the 1950’s, and many volunteers were dressed in the styles of that period. Following the welcome given by Auxiliary director Catharine Choate, hospital chaplain Donald Hoover offered the invocation.

A luncheon of burger baskets with trimmings and coke/root beer floats was served by VVRH staff, while musical entertainment was provided by the trio “Little Kenny and the Poodles,” and, of course, “Elvis.” Hospital CEO Kent Rogers expressed his appreciation on behalf of the hospital to those in attendance, and assisted Catharine in presenting the service awards.

Over the past year, the total service hours of volunteers and chaplains represent an equivalence of more than a dozen full-time employees to the hospital.

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