 Well, when Ascension Health St. Joseph's Medical Center in Brainerd transformed it was transformed today into a shopping center for one of their biggest fundraisers of the year. Our Anthony Scott has more on the event. The hospital isn't a place you usually associate shopping with, but in Brainerd many community members were checking gifts off their list at Ascension Health's Holiday Bazaar. It's changed over the years, but right now it's different crafters coming in selling their wares. Some are like employees that sell things that, you know, they pay so much for a booth and then they get to sell their wares and everybody else gets to know what's kind of going on. The Holiday Bazaar has been going on for roughly 50 years and when it first started, members of Ascension Health's auxiliary would make their own crafts and sell them, but now vendors buy space to sell their items. I've seen this quite a few times and I came into the hospital and saw the posters. I thought I would really like to be a part of that and support that and I was very blessed that they let me come in. Men and women of the auxiliary were busy making cookies for the events annual cookie walk. We have a huge cookie walk. Our volunteers provide all of our cookies. We had 3,500 cookies at least. We were swamped at first. It's quieting down a little, but we were swamped at first, so. The event is one of the biggest fundraisers of the year for Ascension Health, with all the proceeds supporting the auxiliary which purchases equipment for the hospital. Reporting from Brainerd, Anthony Scott, Lakeland News. Last year, the Holiday Bazaar raised about $10,000 for the hospital. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.