Christmas is just seven weeks away, but the ladies of the Sewing Sisters Quilting group are well prepared to support a locally-organized charity that helps impoverished people overseas. The group’s 51 members have knitted some 110 girls dresses for the annual Christmas Shoebox Campaign. The group, which meets every Tuesday at the Salvation Army in Long Pond have been together for about nine years. Under the leadership of Gloria Guy, the women have undertaken many projects. This is their second year supporting the Christmas Shoe Box campaign, which is coordinated by Coralie (Dodge) Thompson. On hand for the gathering of the dresses were members, starting in the front row, from left: Gloria Guy, Janice Rogers, Coralie Thompson, Pauline Francis, Joyce Canning, Golda Hopkins, Donna Pilgrim; in the second row, from left: Trudy Bussey, Karen Hughes, Sandra Renouf, Mary Lou Snow, Dora Cronin, Dorothy Reid, Joan Smith, Marg Dawe, Kay Penney, Pamela Davis, Francis Chislett; and in the third row, from left: Beverly Butt, Marie Stevens, Fay Wheaton, Marilyn Collins, Doris Kennedy, Joyce Norman, and Rosie Harvey.
