{"id":9127,"date":"2025-08-29T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=9127"},"modified":"2025-08-29T17:00:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:00:44","slug":"organizers-hustle-to-bring-back-popular-fundraiser-for-liverpools-queens-general-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2025\/08\/29\/organizers-hustle-to-bring-back-popular-fundraiser-for-liverpools-queens-general-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizers hustle to bring back popular fundraiser for Liverpool’s Queens General Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stephanie MacKenzie is the co-chair of the 2025 Queens General Hospital Hustle. (Rick Conrad)<\/p><\/div>\n

A popular fundraiser for Queens General Hospital in Liverpool is back and organizers hope it will be bigger than ever.<\/span><\/p>\n

People will be able to go to the hospital hustle in person for the first time since before the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stephanie MacKenzie, the co-chair of the 2025 Queens General Hospital Hustle, says the last time the fundraiser was held was an online version in 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe hospital hustle is just the community getting together to raise funds for extra equipment at our hospital. It was an annual event for 40 years until 2019,\u201d MacKenzie explains.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is really important. It\u2019s been a labour of love for us to try to bring it back and we want to make sure everybody knows it\u2019s back, because it\u2019s something that people really look forward to.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The hustle this year will be held at the Liverpool Curling Club on Sept. 13 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. It\u2019s organized by the Queens General Hospital Auxiliary, which also runs the hospital\u2019s gift shop.<\/span><\/p>\n

MacKenzie says the popular yard sale-style setup will return, along with food served by local Kiwanis Club members and doctors from the hospital. And nurses will be on hand to perform checkups on the little ones\u2019 dolls or teddy bears.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we\u2019ll have baked goods for people to buy and take home as well, and preserves, all the normal tables we have with jewelry, books, the big white elephant table, tools and we\u2019re having a craft table as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It\u2019s hoped to be a family event and a lot of fun for the communtiy but an important fundraising event for the hospital. It\u2019s important to show support for our hospital because it’s so very important to our community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Organizers are also planning a silent and live auction on the day of the hustle at the curling club. And for the first time, there will be an online Facebook auction, which will begin on Sept. 2, with items donated by local businesses.<\/span><\/p>\n

All money raised this year will go toward buying a special cardiac monitor and a linear probe for the hospital\u2019s new echocardiogram machine.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an additional probe that will allow it to do more things. So people won\u2019t have to go to Bridgewater to get these more specialized tests.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

MacKenzie says they hope to raise at least $20,000.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut we think that we can raise more. In most of the recent years, we\u2019ve raised $20,000 or more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

They have about 30 volunteers helping out this year. But MacKenzie says they could always use more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhere we really need volunteers is on Sept. 7, we are moving all of the treasures that have been donated and stored at Milton Hall to the curling club. We have rented a moving truck to do that and we\u2019re hoping to have enough people that we can stand there and pass the boxes along and just make it happen fairly quickly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Anyone who wants to volunteer at this year\u2019s hospital hustle or donate any auction or sale items can email organizers at <\/span>queenshospitalhustle@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

You\u2019ll also be able to buy raffle tickets to help. Volunteers will be selling them on Saturday at the Sobeys in Liverpool from 10 to 4.<\/span><\/p>\n

And if you want to participate in the online auction beginning Tuesday, search for the Facebook group at 2025 Queens County Hospital Hustle Online Auction<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Listen to the audio version of this story below<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2025hospitalhustleaug2925.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A popular fundraiser for Queens General Hospital in Liverpool is back and organizers hope it will be bigger than ever. People will be able to go to the hospital hustle in person for the first time since before the pandemic. Stephanie MacKenzie, the co-chair of the 2025 Queens General Hospital Hustle, says the last time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[3392,215,1665,1595,2486,685,39,337,683,3391],"class_list":["post-9127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-2025-queens-general-hospital-hustle","tag-fundraiser","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-hospital","tag-hospital-hustle","tag-liverpool","tag-queens-general-hospital","tag-queens-general-hospital-auxiliary","tag-stephanie-mackenzie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9131,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127\/revisions\/9131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}