The
women who work in a small but well-appointed room at the Woodbridge at
Del Webb club house call the place, tongue in cheek, the sweat shop.
For sure, the workers get the job done briskly and efficiently in assembly-line and strictly organized fashion. The highly in-demand product they make goes from the cutting table to a sewing table, then on to a stuffing table, and after that, to clipping,Best home plasticcard at discount prices. ironing and, finally, to stitching. No moment is wasted. In two hours time, they can easily complete 60 of the soft and smooth stuffed pieces packed in tall plastic bags ready for delivery to Kaiser Permanent hospitals in the area.
This labor-of-love delicate pink product is a heart-shaped pillow made especially for breast-cancer patients. These are given to them right after surgery, and to take home with them to help in their post-surgical recovery.
The benefit that the seemingly simple handmade common item provides to patients is two-fold, explained Kaiser specialist Edwin Garcia who met some of the volunteer workers at Del Webb on Monday.
The cuddly soft pillow is emotionally comforting for the patient, he said. And, its physically comforting at the same time,We have been manufacturing rtls for the past fifty years and have supplied a considerable number. he added. The small pillow is something that the patients can put under their arm to soothe the pain and make them feel comfortable after going under the knife, he said.
The breast cancer pillow project was the brainchild of Del Webb resident Geri Rogers. It was something she started out to do by herself, at first. She had read an article in one of her sewing magazines about this type of pillow and how women who have undergone breast cancer surgery found them very comforting, in more ways than one, right after being wheeled out of the operating room. The story was about a project in Denmark.
Rogers read the article in October which happened to be Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It immediately lit a light bulb in her head. Having taught sewing out of her home years ago C her class was called Kids Can Sew C she decided this was something she could do to help breast cancer patients. She went to Jo-Anns Fabrics and Craft in Manteca and purchased yards of textile material with the breast-cancer awareness design C the pink ribbon which represents breast cancer. She made 60 pillows and gave them to Kaiser Permanent in Manteca where she was a volunteer at the hospital gift shop. She was actually a volunteer there when she started making the pillows. The gift shop has since closed but she remains an off-hospital volunteer. In fact, she was just named Volunteer of the Year.
As Rogers received more requests for the pillows, the Breast Cancer Pillow Workshop at Del Webb was born. That was 10 months ago. In that time, they finished 333 pillows - and the number keeps growing as the volunteer Del Webb crew continues to meet at their sweat shop C the arts and crafts room C every third Monday of the month from 10 a.m. until noon or 1 p.m.
Each sewing session averages 11 or 12 volunteers. Some of them are regulars; others come whenever their time allows. They can just drop in, Rogers said, adding with a smile that if they miss a work session, their wages wont get docked. Her crew playfully refers to her as their project manager.
The work is very organized, with every step of the process clearly cut out for each of the volunteers to follow. The job starts at the cutting table where the heart-shaped cloth pieces are cut. From there, the pieces go to the sewing table where they are sewn together. That done, the work moves on to the stuffing table where a volunteer puts the stuffing inside and the pillow takes shape. Another volunteer then hand-stitches the side where the stuffing was inserted. Finally, a pink card the size of a business card decorated with the cancer awareness pink ribbon symbol is attached onto the pillow using a safety pin. The note on the card reads: This hand-sewn pillow was made especially for you with Hope, Love and Prayers. By Kaiser Permanente Volunteers.
This reporter may not have played a real board game in years, but....being the harness racing purist or junkie that I am; I could not resist being one of the first people to purchase a brand new board game called Midwest Harness Racing.
What is even more interesting than the game itself is the creator of the game. That person is Samuel Borntreger of Edgar, Wisconsin.
Samuel, age 30, works at a saw mill near his home in Wisconsin. He is Amish and he knows all about trotters and pacers since they have no automobiles, no electricity, and must rely on horses as their means of transportation, for working the fields and on their farms.We rounded up 30 bridesmaids dresses in every color and style that are both easy on the eye and somewhat easy on the earcap. He would not allow his photograph to be taken for this story due to his beliefs.
Samuel knows about harness racing from the grass roots, the county fairs where horsemen race for purses and there is no betting. He has always liked harness racing.We printers print with traceable cleaningsydney to optimize supply chain management. His brother-in-law, a blacksmith who also breaks (trains) harness horses for trainer/owners and then give them back to them before they begin their racing careers, helped him develop the idea for the game.
"We were on Christmas vacation in December of 2010,Large collection of quality cleanersydney at discounted prices." Samuel explained, "visiting my brother-in-law in Iowa, and while we were playing another game, the idea of a harness racing game was born. When I got home, work was slow at the saw mill and I had time to develop the concept and work on the rules for the game. In February of 2011, we put the idea on paper and by November of 2012 we had it done.
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For sure, the workers get the job done briskly and efficiently in assembly-line and strictly organized fashion. The highly in-demand product they make goes from the cutting table to a sewing table, then on to a stuffing table, and after that, to clipping,Best home plasticcard at discount prices. ironing and, finally, to stitching. No moment is wasted. In two hours time, they can easily complete 60 of the soft and smooth stuffed pieces packed in tall plastic bags ready for delivery to Kaiser Permanent hospitals in the area.
This labor-of-love delicate pink product is a heart-shaped pillow made especially for breast-cancer patients. These are given to them right after surgery, and to take home with them to help in their post-surgical recovery.
The benefit that the seemingly simple handmade common item provides to patients is two-fold, explained Kaiser specialist Edwin Garcia who met some of the volunteer workers at Del Webb on Monday.
The cuddly soft pillow is emotionally comforting for the patient, he said. And, its physically comforting at the same time,We have been manufacturing rtls for the past fifty years and have supplied a considerable number. he added. The small pillow is something that the patients can put under their arm to soothe the pain and make them feel comfortable after going under the knife, he said.
The breast cancer pillow project was the brainchild of Del Webb resident Geri Rogers. It was something she started out to do by herself, at first. She had read an article in one of her sewing magazines about this type of pillow and how women who have undergone breast cancer surgery found them very comforting, in more ways than one, right after being wheeled out of the operating room. The story was about a project in Denmark.
Rogers read the article in October which happened to be Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It immediately lit a light bulb in her head. Having taught sewing out of her home years ago C her class was called Kids Can Sew C she decided this was something she could do to help breast cancer patients. She went to Jo-Anns Fabrics and Craft in Manteca and purchased yards of textile material with the breast-cancer awareness design C the pink ribbon which represents breast cancer. She made 60 pillows and gave them to Kaiser Permanent in Manteca where she was a volunteer at the hospital gift shop. She was actually a volunteer there when she started making the pillows. The gift shop has since closed but she remains an off-hospital volunteer. In fact, she was just named Volunteer of the Year.
As Rogers received more requests for the pillows, the Breast Cancer Pillow Workshop at Del Webb was born. That was 10 months ago. In that time, they finished 333 pillows - and the number keeps growing as the volunteer Del Webb crew continues to meet at their sweat shop C the arts and crafts room C every third Monday of the month from 10 a.m. until noon or 1 p.m.
Each sewing session averages 11 or 12 volunteers. Some of them are regulars; others come whenever their time allows. They can just drop in, Rogers said, adding with a smile that if they miss a work session, their wages wont get docked. Her crew playfully refers to her as their project manager.
The work is very organized, with every step of the process clearly cut out for each of the volunteers to follow. The job starts at the cutting table where the heart-shaped cloth pieces are cut. From there, the pieces go to the sewing table where they are sewn together. That done, the work moves on to the stuffing table where a volunteer puts the stuffing inside and the pillow takes shape. Another volunteer then hand-stitches the side where the stuffing was inserted. Finally, a pink card the size of a business card decorated with the cancer awareness pink ribbon symbol is attached onto the pillow using a safety pin. The note on the card reads: This hand-sewn pillow was made especially for you with Hope, Love and Prayers. By Kaiser Permanente Volunteers.
This reporter may not have played a real board game in years, but....being the harness racing purist or junkie that I am; I could not resist being one of the first people to purchase a brand new board game called Midwest Harness Racing.
What is even more interesting than the game itself is the creator of the game. That person is Samuel Borntreger of Edgar, Wisconsin.
Samuel, age 30, works at a saw mill near his home in Wisconsin. He is Amish and he knows all about trotters and pacers since they have no automobiles, no electricity, and must rely on horses as their means of transportation, for working the fields and on their farms.We rounded up 30 bridesmaids dresses in every color and style that are both easy on the eye and somewhat easy on the earcap. He would not allow his photograph to be taken for this story due to his beliefs.
Samuel knows about harness racing from the grass roots, the county fairs where horsemen race for purses and there is no betting. He has always liked harness racing.We printers print with traceable cleaningsydney to optimize supply chain management. His brother-in-law, a blacksmith who also breaks (trains) harness horses for trainer/owners and then give them back to them before they begin their racing careers, helped him develop the idea for the game.
"We were on Christmas vacation in December of 2010,Large collection of quality cleanersydney at discounted prices." Samuel explained, "visiting my brother-in-law in Iowa, and while we were playing another game, the idea of a harness racing game was born. When I got home, work was slow at the saw mill and I had time to develop the concept and work on the rules for the game. In February of 2011, we put the idea on paper and by November of 2012 we had it done.
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