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A Dixon group is turning everyday items into works of art with a blossoming talent that not only capture’s nature’s beauty, but helps people as life’s final journey.

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DIXON — Sometimes, the start of something big just requires a little push first.

Just ask a group of Dixon women who’ve raised more than $80,000 to help people as they navigate life’s final journey. They call themselves The Petal Pushers and they harness the power of the flower to come up with creations that they sell, using the proceeds to help fill patient requests at Serenity Hospice and Home in Oregon.

Armed with eyebrow tweezers, scissors, pencil erasers and even phone books (petals are pressed between the pages, which also draws out any residual moisture), the Petal Pushers take nature’s handiwork and create captivating, one-of-a-kind works of art using

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everyday items — greeting cards, sacks, bookmarks, framed pieces, and more.

Jane Landreth has been with the group since it formed in 2001, and is the sole remaining original member.

She’s seen the group grow and blossom through the years, pulling in more than $82,000 to benefit local hospice organizations, with Serenity being the sole recipient for the past few years.

“When I retired, I wanted to find something to do,” Landreth said. “I liked artistic things, and crafts, but I really wanted to be doing something for somebody else.”

The group of nine women meets at Immanuel Lutheran Church — which provides the work and storage space for the Petal Pushers at no cost — every Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to work on their creations and chat with each other about what’s going on in their lives. Members get to tap into their creative side, and there’s never a shortage of ideas and inspiration.

For Carolyn McBride, meeting with fellow members and being part of that creative spark really lights up her day.

“Because we have a variety of women, we get a variety of the style of cards,” McBride said. “When we look at the cards, sometimes we’re looking at them and going, ‘That’s pretty!’ It’s just very rewarding.”

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Jeanne Kuhn (photo at left) and Karen Wermers (photo at right) work on projects during a recent Petal Pushers meeting in Dixon.

The group uses ordinary objects as a backdrop for nature’s beauty, using dried flowers and a steady hand to turn them into a testament to their talents and nature’s beauty.

PETALS cont’d from page 5 Greeting cards are always popular with customers, but the group also turns bookmarks, framed pictures, gift bags, magnets, place cards and place mats into eye-catching creations.

Their items are sold at Books on First and Pam’s Hallmark in Dixon, as well as Merlin’s Greenhouse in Oregon. The group also sets up tables at a few events to sell their creations — the next one will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 11 during the Grand Detour Arts Festival at the John Deere Historic Site.

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“There’s a lot of support. People love to support Hospice, even if they don’t have a lot of money, and will buy something for $3,” Petal Pusher Peggy Hamilton said. “The shows are amazing to go to because we hear so many stories about what they have done for their family. It’s a win-win: We love what we’re doing here and to know that we’re doing it for a good cause is wonderful.”

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LEFT: Jane Landreth has been with Petal Pushers since it formed in 2001. “When I retired, I wanted to find something to do,” she said.

“I liked artistic things, and crafts, but I really wanted to be doing something for somebody else.” RIGHT: Anna Keys (left) and Peggy Hamilton flatten flowers between the pages of phone books.

PETALS cont’d from page 6 The place mats — the latest colorful canvas on which they paint pictures with petals, and the biggest the group makes — were an idea that came from a customer. Kathi Sherman puts those together.

“We had someone come to a show one time and said, ‘Why don’t you make some place mats?’” Sherman said, so they did, and the customer came back to the next show the group was at.

The money raised for Serenity Hospice goes toward funding patient requests: a final favorite meal, fulfilling a last wish, or finding a way to help someone spend their final days in a way that’s meaningful to them. The group gets a list each year from Serenity detailing how the money is used, and many of the stories have been particularly moving to this talented group of creative and caring women.

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One such final request truly came from the heart.

Interested in joining the “The bride’s Petal Pushers? They meet on mother, before Thursday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at she passed away, Immanuel Lutheran Church, 1013 they recorded her Franklin Grove Road in Dixon. heartbeat,” Petal Call Serenity Hospice at Pusher Rita Trent 815-732-2499 for more said. “At the bride and information. the father’s dance, they played the music with the heartbeat.”

The Petal Pushers know the impact their heartfelt handiwork can make, and that’s what keeps them returning religiously to the weekly work sessions. The women enjoy what they do, helping bring color to what can be a dark time, or a smile — and even tears of joy — to those in need of some happiness.

Perhaps there’s a parallel in the group’s work and the people they help — a kind of comfort in knowing that, like the flowers the group uses to create its keepsakes, the beauty within us will live on long after we leave our place on Earth behind.

“We’re just so proud of what Hospice does for people,” Landreth said. n

TOP: Carolyn McBride arranges flowers on a greeting card. She said being in the Petal Pushers and tapping into her creative side has been “very rewarding.”

The group makes gift bags, cards, bookmarks, magnets and decorative items with fresh, pressed flowers.

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Joan Lemme heads up the book department at the Leydig Center. Lemme is a long-time volunteer at Leydig, and she’s helped enlist others to help at the resale shop. “We started, then we brought our friends and relatives into it, and then hopefully they would bring their friends and relatives into it.”

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Volunteer Janis Butterbaugh works in the seasonal section at Leydig Center in Dixon.

She said her fellow volunteers at Leydig are like a second family.

“They care about what happens to you as a volunteer, whether it be a crisis, a death, surgery ... It always has touched my heart.”

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DIXON — When Joan Lemme taught at Dixon Public Schools decades ago, one of her lessons involved a question written on the chalkboard for her students to answer: “When were you the happiest?”

“They put all of their answers on the board, and what always had the most answers was ‘When I make somebody else happy,’” Lemme said.

Now in retirement, Lemme, 83, volunteers her time along with more than 100 others to give clothes, books, toys and a whole host of other items a second lease on life at Leydig Center, a resale shop where proceeds support local charitable organizations after operating costs are factored in.

For Lemme, volunteering has been a labor of love for more than 45 years, as it was for her husband Gene, who passed away nearly 2 years ago.

Together, the Lemmes recruited friends, church members and others to help out at Leydig, providing people a place where they could find everyday items at a price they could afford.

The Lemmes’ legacy of friendly cajoling became con-

tagious, and other volunteers have done their share of recruiting, too.

“Basically, when you volunteer, it’s friends that get you into it,” Lemme said. “We started, then we brought our friends and relatives into it, and then hopefully they would bring their friends and relatives into it.”

Volunteers’ steadfast spirit of giving their time and toil has been what’s helped Leydig Center serve the community for more than 40 years, but a triple punch of challenges has left Leydig looking for a way to get the spirit to move more people.

The combination of the COVID-19 pandemic, aging volunteers and a rising demand for more inventory has put Leydig Center in a pinch. It takes more than 500 hours of work per week among its all-volunteer staff to keep the place open for more than two days a week, but recently the volunteer hours just aren’t adding up to meet the demand. This summer saw an average of 60 people help out each week, and most for only 2 or 3 hours.

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LEYDIG cont’d from page 11 Volunteers sort donations, determine what’s sellable and toss out what can’t be sold, stock the shelves and racks, and run cash registers. Currently, the store is open to shoppers from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Thursday, and donations are accepted only from 8 a.m. to noon that day — a far cry from once being open 7 days a week. Tuesday serves as a work day for the staff to get merchandise in order. More volunteers would make it possible to expand shopping and drop-off hours to include Saturdays — in fact the store was able to open on a recent Saturday, and additional Saturdays are planned if help allows.

All items that are donated need to be clean and in working condition, and multiple items also need to be presorted.

Some volunteers have been pulling double duty to keep up with demand. Gwen Weidman, 60, has volunteered her time for nearly 5 years in the jewelry department, but many times has been called upon to run a cash register.

Despite the changes and challenges, volunteers still enjoy rising to the occasion and doing their part to help make someone’s day brighter with items they need or want but can’t afford elsewhere.

“I’ve met different people when I volunteer, and when I’m up at the cash register I get to see people that I don’t normally get to see on a regular basis,” Weidman said. “It’s a great place to volunteer because all of the money goes back into the community, and I think it’s important because the resources can go back to where it’s much needed.”

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Looking for a good book or a classic for class?

Or maybe you want to dress up the dinner table with some decor.

You’ll find them at Leydig Center, along with clothes, electronics, toys, furniture and more.

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LEYDIG cont’d from page 12 Putting a smile on a person’s face and bargain in their bags isn’t the only benefit of helping out at Leydig. Volunteers enjoy a sense of camaraderie knowing they’re working together for a common purpose.

Like Lemme, Janice Butterbaugh, 84, also is a retired Dixon Public School teacher, and a lifetime of helping care for kids has segued at Leydig into caring for others in the community, especially those in need.

“We have our ‘family’ families, we have our church ‘family,’ but we also have our Leydig family,’” Butterbaugh said. “They care about what happens to you as a volunteer, whether it be a crisis, a death, surgery, whatever. Cards are sent. It always has touched my heart.”

Butterbaugh has volunteered her time to make sure people’s donations find new homes since before the Leydig Center began its mission of helping others more than 50 years ago, when its namesake, Eurith Leydig, began collecting items and giving them away from her basement. Leydig passed away in 1970, but Butterbaugh and others who helped her during those early years have continued her legacy of giving to the community.

The store has been in several locations through the years, most recently on the southeast edge of town since 2001, at 1107 Warp Road. In the past 50-plus years, the Leydig Center has given nearly $4 million to nearly 80 charitable and service organizations in the Dixon area — and that doesn’t include the in-kind

donations, which have helped people faced with emergencies. Those seeking assistance from the Leydig Center need to be screened through another service organization.

An all-volunteer board of directors oversees the Leydig Center, led by president Sue Johnson, and as with volunteers, additional board members are being sought.

Johnson hopes that one of the fringe benefits of the job helps bring more people out to lend a hand: “There’s nothing that can be described as far as the feeling you can get when you know you’re helping someone,” she said. “You don’t know who that someone is, but there’s someone who needs a lamp, another who needs a toaster and can’t afford to buy a new one. By us having the doors open, we provide a service to that population. When you volunteer here, you know you’ve helped somebody.”

There’s no shortage of things for volunteers to do at the store, regardless of age or ability — checking items in or checking people out, sorting or stocking, there’s a place for everyone at Leydig Center.

“We need volunteers,” longtime volunteer Donna Giltner said, and like the store’s commitment to customers — to offer something for everyone — Giltner and her fellow volunteers are committed to do the same for volunteers.

“If they’re sitting home all by themselves, [helping out can be] a social thing. We’re always friendly. If they don’t like one area, or think it’s too hard, we’ll find something for them. There’s something for everybody.” n

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Sterling’s Craig Bowen has volunteered with the Let’s Feed the Children program since 2011.

Volunteer Carter Schlegel loads lunches into a car for delivery. Thousands of lunches await delivery to eager eaters who can’t wait to see what’s on the menu for their mid-day meal. Lee County Summer Eats director Lynn Roe bags lunches July 13 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Dixon.

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Above: While many of the Let’s Feed Our Children volunteers are retirees, the program attracts people of all ages who want to help, like Kadence Rodriguez, 11, shown here wheeling out a cart of lunches for delivery.

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Being able to have a healthy lunch shouldn’t be a struggle.

But for some, it is, and that struggle has hit home for a growing number of children in Lee and Whiteside counties, especially during summer vacation when kids can’t pile into a school cafeteria for a mid-day meal.

That’s where the local United Way chapters come in.

They’ve found a way to help make sure no child has to go hungry or face food insecurities — and the answer is in a paper sack.

Lee and Whiteside’s United Way chapters each have a summer lunch program that makes sure growing youngsters get the valuable nutrients they need. In Whiteside, Let’s Feed the Children provides free sack lunches to kids on Wednesdays, and in Lee, the Summer Eats program does the same.

Volunteers help pack the sacks and distribute them, and many of them are seniors, who’ve learned during their time the importance of a nutritious meal.

Craig Bowen, 74, of Sterling has volunteered with the Let’s Feed the Children program since 2011. He prides himself on keeping his body active and mind sharp, and being part of something like the summer lunch program plays a role in that — it gets him out of house, keeps him active, and has helped him make new friends during his retirement years. He not only packs lunches, but transports them to the delivery site — with his own car, at that.

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From left: Lynn Roe, along with a Kreider volunteer, and Brandy Muntean, bag lunches July 13 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Dixon. The lunches go out to all of the libraries in Lee County plus a few other spots for pickup. Roe said she enjoys seeing people come together to get into the volunteer spirit.

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Since retiring from JCPenney, Bowen continues to meet new people and get to know them well through the days spent with Let’s Feed the Children. He’s seen others approach volunteering with a similar mindset, and they too have found that they reap rewards from the program: being part of something they cherish and knowing that what they do helps people in need.

“I like helping others and I’m very fortunate that I have the opportunity to do that,” Bowen said. “Most of the people [who help] I had not met. I worked for JCPenney for many years and made a lot of friends, and these are my new friends that I’ve made over the course of the last 11 years.”

Lynn Roe, 62, of Grand Detour serves on the Lee County United Way’s board of directors and volunteers several hours of her retirement putting lunches together.

Roe was the director of the Dixon Public Library and saw participation in both the United Way and its Summer Eats program as a way to continue to serve her community.

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LUNCH cont’d from page 16 “It’s easy and fun,” Roe said.

“You get to see people and the volunteer spirit.”

Lee and Whiteside’s programs run from June 1 to Aug. 10. No paperwork or registration is needed from lunch recipients. In Whiteside County, meals are served at seven locations in Sterling; four in Rock Falls; and one each in Morrison, Erie, Fulton, Lyndon, Prophetstown and Tampico; as well as Milledgeville in Carroll County.

The Lee County program serves at seven different sites in Dixon, including Dixon Public Library, as well as the Paw Paw Boys and Girls Club. In addition to the Dixon library, meals also are served at libraries in Ashton, Amboy, Franklin Grove and Paw Paw. The library sites differ from the other sites, where lunch is served during a certain time, by letting kids pick up meals at any time they are open.

Araceli Betancourt, manager of Ster-Lynn apartments, greets Craig Bowen, who delivered lunches to be picked up at the complex.

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LUNCH cont’d from page 17 Nearly 3,000 sack lunches go out in Whiteside County, and about 2,700 in Lee County — both numbers based on current demand.

With all those lunches, it takes teamwork and coordination to get them all packed, and of course, volunteers. Don’t think you’re up to the task, or that you don’t have time?

Think again.

“People with any ability can help pack lunches into bags,” Roe said. “It’s a short time, and it has a big impact. It doesn’t take much effort to be kind.”

Bags that go to Fulton and Paw Paw are the first to be delivered because of their distance from the packing sites, which are at St. Paul Lutheran churches in both Dixon and Sterling.

Marcia Carter of Fulton coordinates the Feed The Children efforts in Fulton at the First Reformed Church in town. She manages a group of about five volunteers from both First Reformed and Fulton Presbyterian Church who transport meals from Sterling to Fulton to serve in a drive-through style. Carter and her crew say they enjoy seeing kids’ smiles when they get the meals, excited to see what’s inside for lunch that day — but most of all, knowing that lunch isn’t going to be a financial burden for them.

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Volunteers Peggy Carlson (left) and Bekki Thrasher add the nonperishable items to the bagged lunches for Lee County’s Summer Eats program.

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Craig Bowen pushes carts filled with bags of lunches. Whiteside Coun“We were amazed at how polite the children ty’s Let’s Feed the Children program packs just over 3,000 lunches. were, and heard ‘thank you’ from both kids and ALEX T. PASCHAL/APASCHAL@SAUKVALLEY.COM adults,” Carter said. “We even met their parents and grandparents and heard stories of their needs.

The program is great because there are no questions asked when they come to pick up a lunch.

We were there to help with food insecurities or a grandparent on a fixed income feed grandchildren during the summer, or even a busy mother who could just grab a prepared lunch made with love.”

Around 22 percent of children in Lee County and around 15 percent in Whiteside face food insecurity, as estimated by both United Ways.

The fallout from the recent COVID-19 pandemic saw those numbers go up. Other factors, including inflation and the rising cost of gas, have also added stress to families’ bottom lines.

Challenges they face have “gone up terribly,” Bowen said, but having a well-oiled machine of volunteers making the lunch programs a success has helped relieve some of that stress.

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“When you have three or four children to take care of, Go to unitedwayofleecounty.org or call 815how do you afford all of this, gas in the car, and if you travel 284-3339 to volunteer or for more information to your job,” Bowen said. “So this is another help for food. on United Way of Lee County’s Summer Eats program. Go to uwwhiIt’s nutritious, it’s well-protected, it’s clean, and we make teside.org or call 815-625-7973 to volunteer or for more information on sure we make every effort to help people get the food out.” n United Way of Whiteside County’s Let’s Feed our Children program.

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