2025 Holiday Festival
November 13-17
This year's event supports the expansion of the Regional Cancer Center
As Sarah Bush Lincoln prepares to expand the Regional Cancer Center, we’re pleased to announce that the 2025 Holiday Festival will support a new SBL Health Foundation initiative called “Expanding Hope”. This follows the “Building Hope” campaign conducted over a decade ago to raise funds for construction of the Regional Cancer Center. The 21,500 square foot cancer center was built to accommodate 21 oncology infusion chairs, with plenty of waiting room space. But over the years, patient volume has soared.
Just since 2020, the number of patient visits has nearly doubled, in part due to an aging population, but there’s also a national trend in younger people diagnosed with colorectal, breast, testicular and thyroid cancers and melanoma.
Plans are to expand our Regional Cancer Center to make room for a total of 34 oncology infusion bays, 6 medical infusion bays and extend the now standing-room-only waiting room. There will also be an expansion of diagnostic imaging and pharmacy and a larger parking lot.
Your support of the 2025 Holiday Festival will support the “Expanding Hope” campaign, soon be unveiled. Stay tuned for more information.
ONLINE AUCTION
Thursday, Nov. 13 - Monday, Nov. 17
Open to the public.
This year’s online auction will feature more than 80 items designed by Sarah Bush Lincoln employees, area residents and businesses, including a wide-variety of home décor and holiday items, handmade wooden trees, fresh greens from Hager Tree Farm and much more.
Friends Night Out
5 to 7 pm, Thursday, November 13
For just $10, enjoy a signature drink and an exclusive preview of all that this year's event has to offer. Shop the SBL Gift Shop's Pop-Up Holiday Boutique.
Open to the Public
10 am to 7 pm, Friday, November 14 - 3 to 8 pm Cookies with Claus
View the stunning online and live auction items and shop the SBL Gift Shop's Pop-Up Holiday Boutique.
GALA & LIVE AUCTION
Saturday, November 15
5:30 pm - Cocktail hour
7 pm - Gala and Live Auction
The Live Auction will feature 30 elite items with Stokes Auctioneer Shelby Stokes adding the fun and excitement. We're very excited that this year's event will be back on campus in the SBL Lumpkin Education Center. Tickets are $85 each and can be purchased from the SBL Health Foundation at 217-258-2511.
MEMORY STAR ORNAMENT
Celebrate the memory of a loved one or recognize a Sarah Bush Lincoln Hospice caregiver that was particularly kind while supporting an endowment for SBL’s Hospice House, Willow Breeze.
Christmas is a wonderful occasion to honor or thank someone. Purchasing a $40 Memory Star ornament or making a tribute gift also helps patients throughout our 20-county service area afford their stay at Willow Breeze. Most insurance companies pay for nursing care, but not room and board. Orders are due by Monday, November 17, 2025.
For more information about the Holiday Festival or a Memory Star Ornament, call the SBL Health Foundation at 217-258-2511.