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ROBERTA
VERNON Ask Roberta Vernon why she volunteers as a Pink Lady at Labette Health and she'll give you one very special reason. To give something back to her community. "I feel like we are so fortunate to live in a smaller city and yet have such a good hospital with so many excellent doctors available to us." Giving is a term synonymous with the Labette Health Auxiliary, the Pink Ladies, whose members donate about 20,000 hours of community service each year. In addition to providing informational and comfort services to hospital visitors, they help the staff by running errands throughout the facility, and the community by raising money for special projects. With the money they raise, Pink Ladies give a great deal back in several ways, including new hospital equipment and also scholarship money for area students. Roberta's area of specialty is helping run the hospital gift shop, which is one of the auxiliary's major endeavors that helps generate funds. If you ask her what she really likes best about working there, besides all the people she gets to meet and help, she'll tell you mostly, it is the great director of volunteer services. Like the other Labette Health staff members, Roberta says that her director really cares about all her volunteer workers personally -- like they were family. Simply put Roberta says, "I just love working here."
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