Senior Caring Hands Group Sees Red For A Good Cause

The Johnston Caring Hands senior ladies have been at it again.

The knitting group, which meets at Crown Point Community Center, recently donated more than 30 handmade red scarves to the Des Moines WomenHeart Network for their Red Scarf Program.

In January, the needle craft group made and donated 26 specialty angels in memory of those killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn.

The angels, which represent 20 children and six adults killed on Dec. 14, were sent to the St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Newtown.

The delicate angels are also regularly made for the Johnston Mercy Hospice Center.

All angels are handmade by these Johnston seniors, blessed, and then taken to the hospice center where one is placed on the door of a patient who has passed, and then an angel is also given to each of the immediate family members.

Each month this group donates between 35 to 70 angels, said Sue Timm, Caring Hands member.

Recently, the group began asking local businesses and community members for  financial support because it costs approximately $600 a year for angel supplies. 

If you would like to help them continue this heartfelt project, please send your donation to:

Sue Timm, c/o Crown Point Community Center, 6300 Pioneer Parkway, Johnston, IA  50131.