‘Knitwits’ turn grocery bags into mats for the homeless
By CHRISTINE HAINES
chaines@yourmvi.com
The Statue of Liberty may ask for “your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” but all a group of Mon Valley women have asked for over recent months are your grocery bags.
From those bags the Monongahela/Donora Lions Club has provided a second community bench and a group of women, some from the Lions, some from the general community, have created sleeping mats for the homeless.
Cathy Waller of New Eagle is a member of both the Lions and the community group known as the Knitwits that made the sleeping mats.
The Knitwits meet weekly at the Memory Tree in Monongahela Wednesday mornings and Thursday evenings.
“We’re totally community-based. We’re little old ladies sitting around knitting and crocheting,” Waller said.
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