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January 2018
Happy New Year
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January Agency Spotlight:
Cancer Association of Shelby County
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Most, if not all of us have had family and friends who fought battles with cancer. Some were lucky enough to win the battle, some weren't. Try to imagine not only dealing with the most devastating diagnosis you or your loved one could face, but also facing financial hardship at the same time. Unable to pay your bills, get to treatments, possibly facing the struggle with no insurance.
Fortunately for Shelby County, these cancer patients have a place they can turn to, the Cancer Association of Shelby County. Here Donna Harrell and her team will do everything in their power to lessen the burden these patients are bearing. In 2017, the Cancer Association spent roughly $106,000 aiding 83 cancer patients with one or more services each. These services included gas for 522 trips to cancer treatments and doctor visits, paying for 112 chemo and/or radiation treatments, food cards, paying for prescription drugs, equipment, and in-home care. They also paid 43 months of health insurance premiums for their patients and helped with rent, house payments and utility payments.
Our SCUFFY funding provides just over 26% of the Cancer Association's budget, and none of this would be possible without your generous donations. You, the donor, are our most important asset. Thank you, from SCUFFY, from our Cancer Association, and from the many patients they were able to help.
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Donna Harrell, Executive Director, accepting a generous donation to the Cancer Association.
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Cancer Bash
According to Donna Harrell, the 2017 Cancer Bash was the best event they have had to date, with 250 people in attendance and raising over $18,000.00. Like all of our agencies, the Cancer Association does a great deal of fundraising to support their annual budgets. Thank you to everyone who supported the 2017 Cancer Bash.
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2018 SCUFFY Campaign Pacesetters
Our 64th annual SCUFFY Campaign will have its official kick-off on March 7. As every year, we have a wonderful group of companies, businesses and schools, who have agreed to run their campaign early as our Pacesetters. Our goal for the 2018 Campaign is $830,000.00, and our Campaign Drive Chairs, Aaron Haehl and Eric Glasco, appreciate all the help they can get to kick off the campaign with a nice amount. We will anxiously be waiting to announce these Pacesetter results at the kick-off breakfast. Our 2018 Pacesetters are:
Ryobi Die Casting USA
PK USA
Shelby Materials
Freeman Family Funeral Homes
St. Joseph Catholic School
Fiddlers Three/Maxim Events
First Merchants Bank
MainSource Bank
Shelby County Co-op
Best of luck and Thank You to each of our great Pacesetters!!
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Meet our 2018 SCUFFY Campaign Drive Chairs
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Aaron Haehl was born and raised in Shelbyville. He is a 1999 graduate of Shelbyville High School and has a Bachelor’s Degree from Purdue University. Aaron is the Chief Financial Officer of Shelby Materials, his family's locally owned business that started in 1951. He has actively volunteered in the Shelbyville community and was the co-chair for the 2017 SCUFFY Campaign, following in the footsteps of his grandmother, Virginia Owens, as a SCUFFY Volunteer. He served on the Major Hospital Foundation Board from 2009 to 2017 and on the Foundation's Finance Committee. Aaron was a board member of the Shelby Community Health Center and currently serves on the SCUFFY Board of Directors. In his free time, Aaron enjoys traveling as well as attending Purdue basketball and football games with his family and friends. He is an avid golfer and enjoys snow skiing.
Eric Glasco is an attorney at McNeely Stephenson. Eric and his wife Lauren (Rees) were both born and raised in Shelbyville. Eric’s involvement with SCUFFY began after law school, and he finds this work important because of his own previous experiences with some of the agencies that are supported by SCUFFY, such as Boy Scouts and the Boys and Girls Club. Eric enjoys being active in the community, where he currently serves on the SCUFFY board of directors, the Planned Giving Committee for Major Hospital Foundation, and
serves
as the Vice-President of Shelbyville’s Rotary International. He is a long-time
member of Shelbyville’s
First Christian Church. Additionally he is a District Representative for The Young Lawyers’ Section of the Indiana State Bar Association.
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The 2018
SCUFFY
Art Contest
Open to all Shelby County
4th & 5th Graders
As preparations for the annual SCUFFY Drive gear up, it is time for children and youth of Shelby County to get involved too. The SCUFFY Art Contest will give 4
th
and 5
th
graders a chance to express their knowledge of SCUFFY through art with this year’s theme “SCUFFY – Providing a Strong Foundation!”
First place winners receive a $20 gift certificate and a ribbon. Second and third place winners receive a ribbon. All first place winners will be judged together for a chance at the grand prize, a new bicycle, sponsored by The Bicycle Shop.
Thanks to all of our Sponsors!
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