Helping hands
Posted: Sunday, March 14, 2010
Sixth-grade Kenai Middle School students, left to right, Kat Payton (striped blanket), Raeliana Feik (baseball blanket), Karen Stroh, The LeeShore emergency shelter manager, and Sydney Tyler (blue blanket with guitars) are shown presenting blankets they made to Stroh. The girls and their mentor, Christina Bertmaring of the U.S. Coast Guard, not shown, decided to do a project that would be of some benefit to the community. When families go to the shelter, each family member is given a blanket to keep. The girls decided to make blankets that would be more masculine and therefore be more appropriate and appealing for the teen boys. The girls and Bertmaring meet during lunch time on Mondays. They have been meeting for a couple of months.
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