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People of all ages and skill levels, including mothers and daughters, are encouraged to participate.
Group Creates Handmade Projects to Support Neighbors in Need BY FRANCINE FULTON
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have community members join the group and work on sewing projects that benefit people in need. MCC Stitches, which meets at the library on the fourth Saturday of the month from 9 a.m. to noon, with the exception of July, August and December, is continuing its efforts under the guidance of group leaders Kara Campbell, Brenda
Pearsall and Becky Minarik. Campbell reported that in 2025, MCC Stitches made donations to several local organizations, including Refresh Berks, soap sacks and washcloths; Hope Rescue Mission, hats and scar ves; Lighthouse Women & Children’s Center, hats, scarves, blankets and washcloths; Gift of Life, lap blankets; Shar’s
Hands, soap sacks, washcloths, hats and scarves; Opportunity House, blankets; and Safe Berks, blankets and hats. The group also contributed items to a street mission in York. “One of our members has a friend in York who has a coat rack where she puts out scarves and hats for the homeless or anyone who walks by and See MCC Stitches pg 5
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“Foodraisers” to Offer Homemade Lasagna, Fastnachts
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A Valentine’s lasagna dinner and a sale of fastnachts are two “foodraisers” being planned by the Hay Creek Valley Historical Association (HCVHA) at Historic Joanna Furnace, 1250 Furnace Road, Geigertown. The lasagna dinner will be offered on Thursday, Feb. 12. For the takeout meal, there will be a choice of homemade meat lasagna, with marinara or Alfredo sauce; cheese lasagna; and gluten-free meat lasagna. The dinner will include a pan of lasagna and salad,
as well as bread for the non-gluten-free dinners. All the dinners will be sold cold with heating instructions included. Lasagna dinners will include a homemade chocolate dessert. “We plan to have other foods available to purchase on the day of our sale, including chocolate-covered strawberries and homemade soup,” said Mark Zerr, HCVHA executive director. Items will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Takeout lasagna meals must be ordered in advance at www.haycreek.org. The order deadline is Monday, Feb. 9.
Volunteers (from left) Mark Wright, Martha Zerr and Margie
See “Foodraisers” pg 8 Wright prepared fastnachts at last year’s event.
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Stitching With a Purpose n October of 2022, the Stitches craft group at Moving Communities to Christ (MCC) Church in Morgantown changed its named to MCC Stitches and switched the location of its monthly meetings to the Village Library of Morgantown. The move was part of an effort to
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Members of MCC Stitches display some of the sewing projects they have been working on.
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