Mary Hopple

Mary Hopple shares, “For about a year, since I retired, I have been sewing aprons for children.  I have had three groups – the first were children in cooking classes at a soup kitchen, the next were children attending cooking classes at a local farm serving low income, and the third group are students in a nature preschool. So far I have made about 150 aprons for children who are in need of them. I have always loved to sew, but didn’t have much time until I retired. I read in the paper that a local soup kitchen was teaching children in low income neighborhoods, that was when I asked if the kids would like to have aprons – the owner said by all means. That got me started – then when they got 200 aprons donated I moved on to other groups of kids.”