Community members shared conversation and laughs while enjoying libations and raising auction paddles during the 32nd Mariners Hospital Bougainvillea Ball, which was reimagined this year as the Bougainvillea Bash, at Cheeca Lodge on March 26. Put on by the Baptist Health Foundation and the Bougainvillea Ball Committee, the event will benefit the hospital through the purchase of a new, state-of-the-art Siemens MRI scanner. The ball dates back to the late 1980s, when hospital administration, the Keys Hospital Foundation and hospital auxiliary looked for ways to raise money to construct a new hospital.
