Knitters tackle needy
Gifts help homeless fight cold
FORGET about yarn-bombing trees – a group of good Gold Coast Samaritans has used its crochet hooks and knitting needles to help keep the city’s growing homeless population/ warm this winter.
The anonymous group of community-minded knitters “yarn bombed” Carey Park in Southport overnight on Saturday, hanging colourful handmade scarfs and beanies from trees as gifts for locals sleeping rough.
The items were accompanied by cards explaining the random act of kindness.
“Just because you matter,” the cards read. “Everyone needs help sometimes. Please take a scarf or beanie to help you get through the night. Lots of love.”
Comments on pictures of the do-gooders’ gesture posted on the Gold Coast News, Events, Weather & Surf Facebook page revealed the gifts were the work of a group known as the Gold Coast Craft Queens.
Members of the multi-generational group, which operates in association with the Queensland Benevolent Society, share ideas, projects and techniques at regular gatherings at Labrador, Coomera Springs and Nerang.
Group member Vicki Browning oversaw the yarn bombers responsible for Saturday night’s winter woollies gifts. “The queens are leg- ends. They do most of the work – I just co-ordinate,” she said in a post on Facebook.
It’s not the first time the community-minded knitting brigade has stitched up a storm to help warm the ranks of homeless people on the Coast during winter – the group also donated scarfs and beanies to the homeless in 2015 and 2016.
Any items that weren’t collected from the trees were packed into bags and loaded into the Rosie’s van to be distributed at its next stop. ADELE has hinted that her latest tour could be her last.
After 15 months on the road, the singer told an audience at London’s Wembley Stadium that touring “doesn’t suit her”.
“I might never see you again at a live show,” the 29-year-old told the 98,000 fans. “Who knows? But I will remember this for the rest of my life.”
Adele, worth more than $210 million, is reaching the end of a world tour that has taken her across Europe, America and Australia. THE charity caught up in this week’s fatal plane crash at Mt Gambier has broken its silence, paying tribute to its volunteer pilot and the mother and daughter who lost their lives.
Angel Flight says Grant Gilbert was a well-respected businessman and pilot and would be sadly missed.
“There are no words which can adequately express the sense of loss which has been felt, and that depth of feeling has been communicated to the charity by people right across the state,” chief executive Marjorie Pagnani said.
The crash also claimed the lives Tracy Redding, 43, and her daughter Emily, 16.