By Lisa Montoya -
Activities director
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(Back row, left to right) Anna Dirks, Edna Mae
Moomaw, Eva Lewis and (front row) Betty Thomas,
Billie Hessman, guest speaker Kay Main and Martha
Tasset pose in front of a display of completed prayer
shawls and quilts. |
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The entire Manor community got a
glimpse of some wonderful work being
done by their friends.
A group of residents meets every Monday
at 3 p.m. in the community room to crochet
shawls as part of our Shawl Ministry. The
shawls are made for people who are ill or
who are having a hard time in their life. The
group is made up of eight members. Our outreach ministry recently
expanded when Presbyterian
Manors’ Marketing Director
Leslie
Chaffin
told us
about
Native
Americans
who are in
need of blankets, and she thought
we would like to help them.
That is how our sewing group
began.
We are also planning to send
some of our blankets to the
Hurricane Katrina victims. All
of our material has been donated
to us. Norma Schoens’
sister-in-law donated four boxes
of jeans that we
cut into squares.
We are sewing
those squares
together with
other donated
material to make
blankets. Batting is also being
added so the blankets can keep
people warmer in the winter
months.
The blankets are tied together
with yarn to hold them together,
and the edges are machine
sewn.
The ladies in the sewing group
love making blankets, because it
is something they either have
done all their lives or they
remember doing it with their
mothers and grandmothers.
The sewing group has 14 to
18 people who help make each
blanket.
Thanks go out to each and
every one of our wonderful volunteers.
They make this world a
better place.
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