Aiming to Inspire Health Raises Over $19,000 for Local Health Care

  • August 18, 2022
Sanford Health Brooking Clinic’s team placed first at last week’s Aiming to Inspire Health clay target tournament. Team members include Thomas Smith, Sam Brandenburger, Joe Hornick, and Emily Keefer. Over $19,000 was raised at this year’s annual fundraiser. Proceeds will support local health care, including facility, equipment and technology upgrades; health and wellness education for the community and employees; and assistance for patients and their families.
Sanford Health Brooking Clinic’s team placed first at last week’s Aiming to Inspire Health clay target tournament. Team members include Thomas Smith, Sam Brandenburger, Joe Hornick, and Emily Keefer. Over $19,000 was raised at this year’s annual fundraiser. Proceeds will support local health care, including facility, equipment and technology upgrades; health and wellness education for the community and employees; and assistance for patients and their families.

Over $19,000 was raised Brookings Health System Foundation‘s thirteenth annual Aiming to Inspire Health fundraiser on Thursday, Aug. 11 at Brookings Gun Club, rural Brookings, S.D., presented by First Bank & Trust.

Proceeds will support local health care through Brookings Health System Foundation, including facility, equipment and technology upgrades; health and wellness education for the community and employees; and assistance for patients and their families. 

Twenty-four teams participated at this year’s clay target tournament. Winners from the event include:

  • First Place Adult Team — 153; Sanford Health Brookings Clinic: Sam Brandenburger, Joe Hornick, Thomas Smith and Emily Keefer
  • First Place Adult Individual — 42; Hunter Serforss
  • Second Place Adult Individual — 41; Sam Brandenburger
  • First Place Youth Team — 133; Youth Team A – Midwest Fresh: Chris Hornick, Trevor Schultz, Jackson Sebring, Hunter Steinhaus
  • First Place Youth Individual — 37; Jackson Sebring
  • Second Place Youth Individual — 36; Chris Hornick
  • Drawing, Team — Larson Manufacturing
  • Drawing, Individual — Chad Taecker
  • Ghost Clay Drawing — Anthony Gilmore
  • Lowest Individual Score — Jesse Hopper
  • Early Bird Drawing — Dacotah Bank

Grand prize winner of the Aiming to Inspire Health raffle sponsored by Runnings of Brookings was Louise Coull. Second Prize winner was Kurt Bassett. They won a Benelli Super Black Eagle 3, 12-gauge hunting shotgun and a YETI Hopper cooler filled with hunting supplies.

Event sponsors included First Bank & Trust; Runnings; Sanford Health Brookings Clinic; 3M Brookings; Banner Associates; Helsper, McCarty & Rasmussen P.C.; AAA Collections, Inc.; Kerry’s Landscaping; Kraus-Anderson Construction; Northwestern Energy; Avera Medical Group Brookings; Dacotah Bank; Kjergaard Sports; AMP Electric Construction, Inc.; Thompson Electric; Bowes Construction; Scheels Sioux Falls; Eide Bailly; Back in Motion Chiropractic; Basin Electric Power Cooperative; Building Sprinkler Inc.; Falcon Plastics, Inc.; and Midwest Fresh Catering.

For more information about Brookings Health System Foundation or ways to support local health care, please contact Foundation Director Sara Schneider at (605) 696-8855 or foundation@brookingshealth.org or visit brookingshealth.org/Foundation.

About Brookings Health System

Brookings Health System, located in Brookings, South Dakota, includes a 49-bed hospital, the 79-bed The Neighborhoods at Brookview nursing home, Brookhaven Estates senior living apartments, Yorkshire Eye Clinic & Optical, and medical clinics in Arlington, White and Volga, South Dakota. It is a non-profit, city-owned facility that offers the community a full range of inpatient, outpatient, emergency and extended care services. Brookings Hospital provides local access to doctors in Brookings and offers robotic da Vinci surgery and Mako robotic-arm assisted procedures, making it one of the premier rural community hospitals in South Dakota. For more information about the services offered at Brookings Health System, please call (605) 696-9000 or visit us on the Web at brookingshealth.org.

About Brookings Health System Foundation

The mission of Brookings Health System Foundation is “Inspiring people to support Brookings Health System through philanthropy, recognizing the vital role of local healthcare in sustaining quality of life in our community.” Gifts to the Foundation support charity health care for those less fortunate, health and wellness education, facility, equipment, and technology upgrades and other needs as they arise at Brookings Health System. For more information about Brookings Health System Foundation or how you may contribute, please contact Foundation Director Sara Schneider at (605) 696-8855 or foundation@brookingshealth.org.