November 2017 | Vol. 3 Iss. 11
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SMALL MIRACLES BRING COMMUNITY OF WOMEN TOGETHER By Natalie Mollinet | natalie@mycityjournals.com
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hen you think of camping, ing Highland High. Leaders in the especially girls camp, the Foothill area were excited to help first things that come into mind and found they could contribute are songs, late night talks, junk five quilts. Still, 12 quilts wasn’t food and arts and crafts. In the enough for 26 girls. Parleys area, The Church of Jesus “I wish I had someone to do Christ of Latter-day Saints’ young the quilts,” Cook pondered. So, women camp leaders wanted to like any good daughter, she called make sure their girl campers had her mom. Her mother, like many more than those typical camp exmothers, already had a solution to periences. Annika Cook, one of her problem: “Well, sweetheart, the camp directors, had an idea. don’t forget that I belong to a “As I thought about it, our quilting group.” youth have been raised in a very From her mother, Cook was selfish time, I see it all the time,” able to get a friend’s number who Cook said. was a part of the quilting group. As she thought of selfless That friend, Debbie Randle, was acts that her girls could help with, so touched by the project that she she thought about her sons who only said, “You tell me how many served LDS missions in Germany quilts you need, and I’ll get them and Iowa where they helped the The refugee girls were excited to have quilts made for them by their fellow students and women in the Sugar House area. (Photo/Elaine Toronto) done.” Randle agreed to make 11 refugees. quilts and many ladies in the area “Hearing about it constantly, I was just hit really hard that we “It’s a loving gesture, it brings warmth and comfort and it’s binding helped tie them, including Cook’s mother. needed to make quilts for the refugee girls at Highland,” Cook said. friendships and love into the quilts.” The next step in getting the quilts made was to get the young Cook presented the idea to the other camp leaders, who loved The first hurdle came when the girls camp only had enough women in their area on board. They presented the idea at their camp it, but wanted to make sure that the task was doable. She first went power and materials to do seven quilts, not enough to please all kickoff last March and some of those attending camp were willing to the school district to find out how many refugee girls attended 26 girls at Highland. Cook had no idea how she was going to pick to make more than one quilt. Again, the number of quilts grew. As Highland and it turned out the school had 26 girls. just seven girls from the group of girls and again, lots of pondering a part of the kickoff, they asked the girls to pick out their own red “I didn’t just want to tie fleece quilts. I wanted something to went into what could be done. The camp leaders then had the idea fabric and cut out hearts, and those hearts would be stitched onto be special and took time, love and energy to make,” Cook said. to call other girls’ camp leaders in the area whose girls were attend- the quilts. This was done by girls in the Foothill and Parleys area, Continued on Page 6...
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