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Residents warming their heart by making scarves for those who need it

 

Last year's Warm Your Heart, Make a Scarf.

 

An initiative that provides scarves to the City’s homeless for free is back this winter.

 

'Warm your heart, make a scarf' has residents knitting and crocheting scarves to be hung around the City. Organizer Donna Wilson tells us she got the idea thanks to a facebook post:

 

"Somebody had tagged me in a story from Winnipeg, where they do similar of making scarves and hanging them on trees, and somebody tagged me and said ‘I bet Donna Wilson would do this in Thompson’ so I read the story, and replied ‘I sure would’".

 

The initiative is now in its third year.

 

Volunteers knitting and crocketing scarves for this year. (Photo courtesy Donna Wilson)

 

Wilson says even those who don’t knit or crochet, can help out:

 

"People are dropping off donations of wool here at the hotel or their calling and were picking them up. So we’re asking people that knit or crochet, if they would like to help make scarves and drop them off at the hotel, that would be awesome, or if they’ve wanna drop off some wool, that’ll be great too".

 

Items can be dropped off at Quality Inn and Suites.

 

Wilson says they will be hanging the scarves on December 27th this year, and they’ve already put together over 40 scarves.

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