Amy Wells wanted to kick off the Powell Hospital Foundation’s next campaign in style, so she flocked the hospital district board meeting Monday night. 

Pink flamingos lined the walls, and participants entered through hanging pink streamers. 

It marks the start of the fourth year of a campaign coinciding with October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month to raise funds for the hospital’s infusion department, which offers outpatient intravenous and injection treatments.

Wells, the foundation director, said money raised in the past has gone to a number of different projects, from a new ADA door to more recently providing rooms, meal and gas cards for patients coming from elsewhere in the Big Horn Basin who need to stay overnight in Powell while receiving treatment.

“We’ve been able to do some great things with this,” she told hospital board members Monday night. 

Wells will once again be sharing flockings on the hospital foundation Facebook page, and anyone interested can reach out to have a yard or business flocked. This year, after repeated inquiries in past years from those flocked to inquire as to who flocked them, Wells said people can pay an extra $25 to find out who indeed flocked them so, she said, “they can get revenge.”

“Everybody kept asking, and I’m like, ‘this is valuable information,’” she said. “So then we started charging for that.”

Cost is $40 to flock a friend and $20 to remove the flock. 

Murder mystery casino night

Beyond the flocks of pink flamingos, the foundation is doing another murder mystery and casino night to raise funds, likely for the Long Term Care Center. 

Wells said in taking a tour through the center and talking with director Jaren Renfro, the focuses will likely be on some updates inside the center as well as potentially a new transport van, although the final specific focuses are still up in the air. 

“So there’s lots of projects,” she said. 

The event is 6-9 p.m. Oct. 24 at Homesteader Hall at the Park County Fairgrounds and includes a costume contest — it’s the week before Halloween, after all — live casino games, a bar and food. 

There will be a variety of casino games for attendees to play, where they can win poker chips to then be able to cash in for Monopoly money, which can then be used to buy auction items. 

Homesteader Hall’s side room will be the location of the murder mystery investigation, and with it focused on determining what happened at an asylum, Wells said being a hospital comes in handy. 

“We’re having a lot of fun with it because we have all the hospital equipment, so it’ll be kind of fun to be able to go through the basement and see what we can use,” she said.

For more information visit the Powell Medical Foundation Facebook page.