HASTINGS — Mary Lanning Healthcare and area businesses are joining together to honor all babies born on January 21, 2015 — the hospital’s 100th anniversary.
Mary Lanning Healthcare, with the help of the Hastings Area Chamber of Commerce, is gathering gift items from area businesses. A special gift package, featuring the donated items, will be presented to each baby born on the 21st. If several babies are born on January 21, the overall prize package will be shared among them.
All contributing businesses will receive recognition by the families, and will be acknowledged in a newspaper ad featuring the “Babies of the Century.”
Thousands of area residents have been born at Mary Lanning Healthcare over the years. The most babies ever born in a single year was 992 iin 1955. Births in 2014 totaled 850.
Members of the media: For information or to interview the families of the Babies of the Century, please contact Lisa Brandt.