One of the Humboldt District Hospital Foundation's marquee fundraising events is on the way.

The annual Friends Fore Charity Golf Scramble is taking place on Saturday, September 10 at LeRoy Leisureland.

Registration for the event has been quickly filling up, and in fact, Executive Director Lorrie Bunko says, they are already implementing a waiting list.

"We are full. We were able to open up spots for three more teams and were able to fill those within a matter of time and have started a waiting list now. We're very happy with the response for this tournament."

Initially, the foundation had room for 72 golfers, but they were able to bump that up to 84.

Each year, a rural health care facility comes on board with the HDHF to help raise funds through the scramble. Proceeds are then split between the two organizations.

For 2016, LeRoy's Evergreen Country Home will be the beneficiary.

"We want to be able to help them. They need some upgrades and we identified them this year as the one. It has been a great partnership," said Bunko.

Bunko says that while they have many highlight events each year to raise funds, the golf scramble is particularly important as it allows them to strengthen health care across the Humboldt area.

"Having these partnerships and taking one event a year to split the proceeds with a community is very important to us," she explained. "It gets us out there, building strong relationships, making health care stronger and leaving tools behind for these facilities."

As for the hospital itself, Bunko says that purchasing equipment needs for 2016 has progressed well.

"At the beginning of the year, we looked at the list and had to ask 'are we going to be able to purchase atleast half of this equipment this year', because it was a lengthy list. It's amazing how much we have been able to purchase off of it."

In between fundraising events, the foundation has begun selling bird houses made by John Remai out of Saskatoon.

"He's identified six hospital foundations that he donates them to, and the hospital foundations keep all the proceeds," said Bunko. "We have sold just over $6,000 worth and we have identified that those dollars are going to go towards a new ultrasound that we are needing in about five years."

The bird houses come in all styles from Saskatchewan Roughriders and Toronto Blue Jays, to bird-shaped houses. They can be purchased at the hospital.

You can hear more from Bunko below.