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Quilting helps the needs of church
Looking for quilting jobs, volunteers By Monica Boylson mboylson@communitypress.com
Sewing delicate stitches into a large brown quilt, three Sayler Park women shared their stories about quilting and camaraderie. “Sometimes it’s more social than work,” Wanda Butler, 84, says while pulling a needle through the layers of fabric, batting and backing. “We enjoy being together.” Butler, and her friends Mary Jane Barrett, 93, and Kay Kolb, 83, meet every Thursday at Eden Chapel United Methodist Church in Sayler Park to finish quilts for people. “People bring us pre-made quilt tops, that should be cotton, and we put it together with the batting and backing and bind them,” she said. “The minimum cost is $300 and depending on the size and intricacy of the quilting it goes up from there.” A quilt consists of three layers. The quilt top is the layer of the quilt that includes different shapes and designs that are pieced together. The middle layer is the batting which is a cotton insulator and makes it so the quilt is warm and has shape. The backing is a piece of fabric that is the back side of the quilt. It is usually a solid color and can sometimes be made out of a bed sheet. Quilting is the stitching of designs over the whole quilt which in turn holds all the layers together. The ladies complete about two or three quilts a year, sewing everything but the binding
Ken Reidel picked up his completed quilt from the Eden Chapel Quilters. Pictured from left, are Kay Kolb, Reidel, Wanda Butler and Mary Jane Barrett. MONICA BOYLSON/THE COMMUNITY PRESS To hear from the quilters go to Cincinnati.Com/saylerpark
by hand. Butler said they donate the proceeds from the quilting to projects at the church or help people in need. Originally called the Delhi Sewing Society of Delhi United Methodist Church, the group was organized in 1951 with nine
members in the home of Marguerite Runck, according to the Sayler Park Historical Society. Membership declined and in 1974 the Eden Chapel Quilters was established and they starting sewing quilts and haven’t stopped since. The first quilt the Eden Chapel Quilters made sold for $20. But now only a few dedicated women continue the church’s
tradition. “At one time we had two quilt frames with six women working around each one,” Butler said. Kolb, the most recent member of the group, volunteers at the church and was reeled in to help, she said. “I’d come in here and have my lunch with them,” she said. “One day they told me a needle
would fit nicely in my hand.” Barrett, on the other hand, has been quilting most of her life. “My mother taught me to quilt when I was 4 years old,” she said. “And they taught me on the quilt,” Butler added and laughed. See QUILTING, Page A2
Delhi trustees asked to stop pavilion project By Monica Boylson
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Delhi Township resident Al Duebber was hoping that the third time would be the charm when he requested the Delhi Board of Trustees suspend the Clearview Lake pavilion project indefinitely. “Focus on matters at hand and then revisit it once revenues are secured to support its existence,” he said during a March 13 trustee meeting. Board President Marijane Klug said that there was no current estimated cost for the project but that it was underw ay.
“We are going to continue forward as we have,” she said. In January, Duebber addressed the board and said that he had met Klug with members of the Delhi Business Association, Delhi Civic Association, Delhi Veterans Association and the Riverview Delhi Kiwanis, and proposed that the groups would help support and raise money to fund a pavilion project at the lake. The goal of the groups was to
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privately fund the project rather than use taxpayer dollars. The pavilion was estimated to cost about $285,000 when conceptual drawings were completed in 2010. The project – which is a line item in the 2013 budget – is slated to be funded in part by
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$176,000 from a tax increment financing (TIF) fund, which diverts taxes for capital improvements. The rest of the cost would come from $81,000 in escrow from the original $850,000 loan to purchase and renovate the lake property in 2008. Delhi Parks and Recreation Director Sandy Monahan said the project has been in the works since the township bought the lake property. In letters from Trustee Jerry Luebbers addressed to the president of each civic organization, he wrote: “Some are suggesting that this is some kind of sudden, new idea being For the Postmaster
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‘fast tracked’ to completion. I don’t know exactly why. It has been under consideration for three and a half years.” Duebber, a former trustee who served with Luebbers and Davis at the time the conceptual drawings were completed, said he was not aware of any pavilion project. “(Luebbers) explained that the idea for the park pavilion has been in the works for some time and even substantiated this by adding that Trustee Davis joined him in signing a purchase order,” he said.
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