Lend your sewing skills to wrap babies in comfort

• Klimek to take blankets to babies in need

Photo by Amy Chaffins Mercedes Klimek will leave on a mission trip to Jamaica in a few weeks and she hopes to take a bundle of baby blankets with her. Klimek and students in the creative sewing class at Osakis High School are asking experienced sewers to help make the blankets.

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Students in the creative sewing class at Osakis High School are asking community members with sewing skills to help them with a project that will deliver comfort to children in Jamaica.

On Saturday, the students are hosting an open house with the goal of creating 15 baby blankets to send with OHS senior Mercedes Klimek on her upcoming mission trip to Jamaica.

“I think it will be a good experience and will allow people that love to sew to get to share their talents,” Klimek told the Review last week.

Those from the community who have sewing skills are invited to lend their talents during one of the upcoming open houses:

• Saturday, January 15, 1-4 p.m.

• Wednesday, January 19, 3:15-5:30 p.m.

The open house sewing events will be held in the high school’s sewing room – Room 205. All supplies will be provided.

Mission trip details

Klimek will be in Jamaica February 22 through March 5 as part of the Jamaican United Mission Partnership.

While she’s there, she’ll work at a school, visit an orphanage for disabled children and visit medical facilities presenting a diabetic testing clinic.

This will be Klimek’s third mission trip.

“This is our first time doing a medical activity so I think it will be fun to learn about some things that happen in a clinic setting,” she said.

Plus, the mission group will deliver school supplies, clothes, computers and now, baby blankets from Osakis, to local people in need in Jamaica.

“There are a lot of children born to very poor families,” Klimek said.

Mercedes Klimek is the daughter of Theresa Sampson of Osakis.

For more information about the sewing bee, or the Jamaican mission trip, contact Mercedes Klimek at (320) 859-3274 or e-mail merklimek11@yahoo.com.

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