Each year, the lobby of Nash General Hospital glows a little bit brighter thanks to the lights on the Christmas trees---which may be compared to the heartwarming love and compassion given so generously by those we love, remember and honor.

In November, the Nash Health Care Volunteer Auxiliary held its recent Lights of Love event with a tree-lighting ceremony and choir. For $5, a light for the Christmas trees in the hospital lobby could be purchased in memory or honor of a loved one. The trees were displayed in the hospital lobby throughout the holiday season. The names, which were recorded in a Book of Remembrance, were also on display.

Volunteers sold 900 lights, which raised more than $5,000 to be used for hospital projects. Profits from the previous Lights of Love Celebrations have been used to purchase two stone benches for the Nash Health Care walking path, items for the pediatric services department at the Bryant T. Aldridge Rehabilitation Center,  new lobby furniture for Coastal Plain Hospital, and even a clothing closet for discharged emergency room patients

.For more information on the Nash Health Care Volunteer Auxiliary or on how you can volunteer, please call 926-8118.

NHCS President and CEO Larry Chewning (far right) reads the names of those honored by a light on the tree. Pictured with Chewing are, from left, Judy Woelke, volunteer services director; Jackie Ward, NHCS volunteer; Jeff Hedgepeth, director of marketing and public relations, and John Congelli, director of finance.