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Picture L to R: Gary Davis, President of the Ogle County Hospice Association Foundation, Inc. Board, and Lorrie Bearrows, Executive Director of Ogle County Hospice Association, receive a check from Roberta and Roger Macauley, past President, of the Ogle County Beef Association for the Ogle County Hospice-Hospice Home
The Ogle County Beef Association donated $1,000, proceeds from various fundraisers, to the Ogle County Hospice-Hospice Home. The Hospice Home will be the first rural Hospice Home built in Illinois and only the second built in the State. The Hospice Home will bring a new level of care to the people of Ogle County. It is with the help and support of everyone in the community that the $3 million goal will be reached.
Vincent Kwasniewski and Vince McCabe, of Illinois River Energy, LLC, present a check to Leonard Carmichael, Honorary Chairman of the Ogle County Hospice Home Capital Campaign. This was the first installment of a 3 year, $30,000 pledge to the Ogle County Hospice Home. Illinois River Energy shows its commitment to the local community through its philanthropic donation. If you would like more information about Ogle County Hospice or the Hospice Home, please call 815-732-2499.
Ogle County Hospice Executive Director, Lorrie Bearrows, receives a donation for the Ogle County Hospice Home from Ogle County Country Insurance and Financial Services Representatives (l to r): Chris Criddle, Dick Montavon, Brent Skogsberg, Bearrows, Phil Hasz, Missy Gruben, Dirk Bryant, Gary Davis, Dan Kniss, and Kerry Wickler. Not pictured: Jeanette Linker, Chris Mueller, and Terry Olson. The funds were raised as part of a fundraising event for Children’s Hospital of Illinois, located in Peoria, Illinois. As one of five agencies organizing the event, the Ogle County agents received funds to make a charitable donation in their local area.
If you would like more information about Ogle County Hospice or the Hospice Home, please call 815-732-2499.
Ogle County Banker’s support the Hospice Home.
May 21, 2007 NEWS RELEASE
LOCAL COUNTY BANKERS SUPPORT THE OGLE COUNTY HOSPICE HOME CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
Bankers from across the county met together Monday morning May 21st to present pledges and financial support for the Ogle County Hospice Home to Lorrie Bearrows, Executive Director of Ogle County Hospice. Since 1984, Ogle County Hospice has been providing excellent care to the terminally ill in their homes, nursing home or residential facility. As a highly respected non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization, our sole purpose is to provide care for the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the patients and to provide support for their families. Ogle County Hospice serves 85% of those patients receiving Hospice care in the county. Every day Ogle County Hospice strives to improve and expand the services we are able to provide to our community. The Hospice Home will begin a new level in care. "The support of the county banks is greatly appreciated and is a vital part of the campaign to build the Hospice Home. We need the help and support of everyone in the community to reach the $3 million goal," stated Bearrows.
Attending the presentation were: Scott Tilton, President of the First National Bank and Trust Company of Rochelle, Jeffrey Snyder, President of the Forreston State Bank, Ben Barton, Chairman of the Byron Bank, Richard Harms, President & CEO of the Holcomb State Bank, Patrick Donahue, President & CEO of Rock River Bank, Richard Ohlinger, President & CEO of Lincoln State Bank, Roger Gassman, Vice President of the First State Bank Shannon-Polo, Tom Huber, President Union Savings Bank, Jeff Davis, Interim President of the Mount Morris Savings & Loan, Gary Rhodes, Chairman & CEO of the Stillman Bank
HOW THE HOSPICE HOME T-SHIRT DRIVE WAS BORN - Order your t-shirt today!
The “I Helped Build the Ogle County Hospice Home” T-shirts were a product of a challenge one Ogle County
educator made to a group of Rochelle summer school students.
Bob Farlik of Monroe Center is one of those educators who really put a lesson into context for his students.
During the RTHS Problems of Democracy class, Farlik challenged the kids to find a way they can make a difference
in the world.
He wisely brought Lorrie Bearrows of Ogle County Hospice into his classroom to talk about palliative care
and the end of life. Lorrie told the kids about an exciting undertaking: creation of an Ogle County Hospice
Home. Farlik himself served on the committee that helped create the design of the facility.
Before Bearrows had even left the RTHS campus, Farlik excused four enthusiastic students to the office to
research ways in which RTHS kids could help.
Savannah Fletcher, Aseneth (ass—in—eth) Herrera, Sarah Hudson, Elise Maliszewski (mal—ish—shes—kee)
hoped to host a weekly bake sale with the proceeds going to Hospice. But the reality of preparing breakfast
snacks for 1100 hungry teenagers every week sent them down another path.
This feisty foursome revisited the high school office between every class break to brainstorm. What the
staff noticed over the course of a week was that whenever the girls arrived, each was wearing a different Tshirt
commemorating some sports program, concert, or event.
That’s when the Hospice Home T-shirt drive was born.
A call to Barb Feldhaus Eychaner, an alumnus of RTHS and owner of Bee Designs in rural Rochelle, led to the
design you see on the T-shirts today: a cartoon-like drawing of the Hospice Home next to a stick figure
identified as “Me”.
The back of the design says it all. By purchasing and wearing the Hospice Home T-shirt you can boast, “I
Helped Build the Ogle County Hospice Home.”
The girls’ enthusiasm was infectious. Barb invited them to her studio and the design was printed on sample
T-shirts. That’s when Lorrie Bearrows and Jim Beardin were called in to approve.
Fletcher, Herrera, Hudson and Maliszewski (mal—ish—shes—kee) would oversee a RTHS T-shirt drive, so that
all Rochelle area kids could help build the Hospice Home.
But the feisty foursome wasn’t satisfied. “It’s the Ogle County Hospice Home, right?” They asked. “So why
can’t we challenge kids all over Ogle County to wear T-shirts?”
A list of all Ogle County high school principals was created. Beardin volunteered to contact each, hoping
student councils or Key Clubs at each school will help.
Hudson wisely directed Eychaner to use every one of the Ogle County high schools’ colors in the design. “We want Hospice represented in Ogle County fall festival parades,” she said, “so our plan is for Rochelle
kids to wear a long-sleeved purple shirt under the Hospice Home T; Oregon kids can wear blue underneath;
etc.”
For a $15 tax deductible donation to Ogle County Hospice, you can proudly wear a T-shirt that tells all who
see you that “I Helped Build the Ogle County Hospice Home”.
T-shirts come in 6-8 Youth sizes to XXXL. For every T-shirt sold, $9.50 goes directly to the Hospice Home
fund.
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