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A group of ladies got together one Monday in October in 1994 to begin making quilts out of scraps of fortrell. Today, March 2004, these same ladies are still getting together every Monday morning to make quilts and, to date, have made almost 2,000 quilts. They get up every Monday morning, make a sandwich (of which they are all pooled for lunch), get in their cars, and off they go to the Lutheran Church to make quilts for the needy around the world. You don't have to be a Lutheran to come and help out. These ladies get donations of fortrell from all over town as well as nearly new blankets, flannel sheets or even curtain material that is clean and in good order to use for the back of their quilts. Once they get several made they send them by Gardewine to Winnipeg to the Canadian Lutheran World Relief, who in turn, runs an emergency assistance program and will send the quilts wherever they are needed in the world. All the ladies donate is their time and their thread. "It is a wonderful way to sit and visit with each other while we stitch or tie the quilts," smiles Helen Heinz. Anyone who has scraps of fortrell or nearly new blankets, etc., please drop them off at the Lutheran Church on Second Avenue. Better still, if you have some spare time come out and join them! Please call Helen at 687-3093 or Betty at 687-6122 for further information.
