• Help-A-Heart’s 16th Annual VIRTUAL Celebration of Life Auction

    Posted on June 29, 2021

    Due to continued COVID-19 concerns, we have made the decision to keep Help-A-Heart’s 16th Annual Celebration of Life Dinner & Silent Auction VIRTUAL again for 2021. While we can’t meet in person and enjoy the soda bar, hand out goodies to the kids, and enjoy a meal from Jethro’s BBQ, we can still meet virtually […]

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  • 2020 Auction Ambassador – Paxton Naiditch

    Posted on June 1, 2020

    In the summer of 2018, our lives were rocked when we learned our second son, Paxton, had a congenital heart defect (CHD) called Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, or HLHS. At the time Elise was 20 weeks pregnant with him, and we were in the middle of a move from Chicago to Des Moines. Panic and […]

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  • Help-A-Heart’s 15th Annual Virtual Silent Auction

    Posted on April 27, 2020

    HELP-A-HEART’S 15TH ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF LIFE SILENT AUCTION ANNOUNCEMENT Due to the continued threat of COVID-19, we have made the difficult decision to move Help-A-Heart’s 15th Annual Celebration of Life Silent Auction to a virtual event for 2020. While we would love to hold this event in person, we feel that we can’t risk the […]

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  • Thank You for your AMAZING Support!

    Posted on June 26, 2019

    We feel truly blessed & incredibly grateful by the amount of support shown to our organization Monday night at our 14th Annual Celebration Of Life Dinner & Silent Auction. We are so excited to share that it was another RECORD BREAKING year! We raised over $22,000 and had over 400 people come help us celebrate […]

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  • 2019 Auction Ambassador – Jameson Heidesch

    Posted on June 22, 2019

    Meet Jameson! During the holiday season 2017, our full-term baby boy kept us on pins and needles all winter and into the spring, living in the hospital. In utero, we knew about a VSD, but doctors were not concerned and said the VSD closed. After Jameson was born, our lives were stripped away from us when […]

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  • 14th Annual Celebration of Life Dinner & Silent Auction ~ LISTING INCLUDED

    Posted on June 18, 2019

    Dear Help-A-Heart Supporter, We are just under a week away from Help-A-Heart’s 14th Annual ‘Celebration of Life’ Dinner & Silent Auction! As promised, attached below you will find the listing of auction items that will be available on Monday, June 24th, at the event. If you are unable to attend the event, you can email […]

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