Joint effort to help sick children
Two children at the Royal Children’s Hospital will benefit from the generosity of an anonymous donor and the efforts of some local quilters.
Someone donated 20 partly finished applique blocks with pink and green rabbits on them.
Mary Aitken of Drouin Fireflies brought the blocks along to a meeting and wondered if anyone would be able to complete them.
Shirley Barby of Warragul Quilters accepted the challenge and completed the embroidery on each block to make 20 beautiful rabbits.
Jen Grant of Warragul Quilters offered to join the blocks. She made two little quilts with nine blocks in each and with the extra blocks she made two little pillows for the children’s dollies.
Judy Barr of Drouin Fireflies completed the next step of quilting the tops with the wadding and backing fabric.
When this was done, Jen cut and attached the binding to the little quilts. To finish Shirley did the hand stitching down of the binding.
The quilts will be donated to the Very Snuggly Quilts program, which is organised by the Victorian Quilters Incorporated.
Quilts are given to long-term patients at the Royal Children’s Hospital in the oncology, neurology, cardiac and cystic fibrosis wards.
It is hoped that the quilts will provide some extra warmth and comfort at a difficult time in their young lives.
VIEW
The final meeting of the Warragul Evening VIEW Club for 2017 will be held tomorrow at the Warragul Country Club.
At the last meeting the club welcomed visitors Fay Wilson, Elsie Hefford, Marie Stephenson and Shirley Alexander and 41 members.
The guest speaker was Heidi Lester, who spoke about Horse and Greyhound Racing. Heidi has worked as a steward in horse racing and is now holding that position with Greyhound Racing Victoria. Her talk was most enlightening and shed a fascinating insight into that industry.
The club can reflect on a very successful 2017. It has welcomed many new members which is very heartening, and the club wish them many happy years with VIEW.
The club can celebrate a very successful year financially. It now has five “Learning for Life” students and also had enough funds to contribute to The Smith Family for extra activities such as the book and Christmas appeal.
The club have attended many functions at
Warragul Parkinson's Support and Carers Group
The next meeting date is the Christmas break up on Monday December 11, noon at Neerim South Hotel in 91 - 109 Main Neerim road, Neerim South.
Cost is $25 per head to be paid in advance, so if you haven't already please contact Lisa as soon as possible.
The group will have a Kris Kringle event along with a lovely lunch and of course wonderful company. Please remember to bring only your Kris Kringle present labelled for a male or female valued up to $10, along with your raffle tickets and money.
If you are new to the area or newly diagnosed please contact Lisa, as the group would love for you to join and meet the friendly members in its peer support group.
For more information regarding the group please phone Lisa Kimmitt 0407 221 779.
Any questions regarding Parkinson's please contact Parkinson's Victoria 1800 644 189.