Recycled, reusable bags a hit at MCC Sale
Ruth Schroeder and Dorothy Friesen, residents of Lindenwood Estates Retirement Community, know how to give cheerfully. In 2008, they came up with a plan to use scrap pieces of fabric to create reusable bags to sell at Mennonite Central Committee’s Relief Sale in Winnipeg, Canada. The bags were so popular that, this year, a group of 16 women gathered for 14 Monday’s to create 360 bags for the sale. Selling for $3 a piece, the bags brought in a total of $1140. The women have high hopes to continue the project again next year.
To read more, click on “Past Issues.” Go into 2009 and click on Volume 13, No. 15. “Raising Money for MCC, Saving the Environment” can be found in the left hand column.