15: Division 24 Spotlight

Carthage Spotlight - Sewing Bears

Carthage Spotlight Sewing Bears

This month in Key Club we did the bear project. The bear project is where we make bears and give them to local first responders in Black River and Carthage. The bears are given to children who have been rescued from a traumatic experience, the bears are to help them feel safe and calmer. Our Key Club took this over from the senior citizens because the senior citizens were having trouble sewing the bears with their arthritic hands. Many of us stayed and volunteered for 2-3 hours to sew the bears. It has been three years since we have last been able to do this due to Covid and its restrictions. We were all very excited to get back to making the bears for the bear project!

- Maddison Juby (member)