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Wednesday, February 13, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Future
Outlaws
basketball
players get
a taste of
victory
By Rongi Yost
Correspondent
Last Wednesday, February
6, was a special night for
young Future Lady Outlaws,
as girls ages kindergarten
through eighth grade were
invited to sit behind the
bench, and attend the half-
time locker room chat dur-
ing the Sisters High School
girls basketball game against
Woodburn.
It was all the more special
because the aspiring Outlaws
players got to celebrate a
victory in the locker room
at the end of the game. (See
<Lady Outlaws post big bas-
ketball win over Woodburn,=
page 4.)
Of the experience for
the young players, Coach
Brittaney Niebergall-Brown
said: <As we continue to
build our program from the
youngest players all the
way up to our varsity play-
ers, we wanted to let them
know that they really are
a part of, and will be a part
of, what we are trying to
accomplish here in Sisters
with our girls basketball
program.
< T h e F u t u r e L a d y
Outlaws were excited to
join our pre-game tunnel,
hear the half-time talk, and
cheer in the locker room
after we won the game. To
us coaches, this is one of our
favorite nights as a program
because of the excitement of
our youth players and their
families.=
BLANKETS: Program
helps those facing
hard times
Continued from page 3
and knitted and crocheted
hats and ear warmers, for
premature babies, cancer
patients undergoing chemo-
therapy, and homeless youth
and adults.
Lap robes and walker
caddies go to seniors and
hospice patients, and infant
blankets that are edged with
crocheting from donated yarn
warm the smallest recipients.
<Heart-tugger= dog toys and
soft blocks for toddlers, as
well as any number of spe-
cialty items, are created from
the scraps left from making
the blankets.
<Not one scrap of fleece
goes to waste,= they like to
say.
What began with one
warm-hearted woman of
faith, Mary Tomjack of Bend
and formerly of Sisters, mak-
ing a few fleece cut-and-tie
blankets as samples, has
grown in five years time
into a flourishing 501(c)
(3) nonprofit. They were
recently awarded a $30,000
grant by the Maybelle Clark
Macdonald Foundation to
cover the cost of all their
fleece for the next two years.
<We donate our gifts to
35 local nonprofits that work
with children and adults
in transition,= Tomjack
remarked.
At the end of 2018,
Heartwarmers had donated
4,425 blankets, 2,000 bears,
and a cumulative gift-giving
of 12,000 assorted gifts.
W h e n H e a r t w a r m e r s
heard about the efforts to
support Jenny Cashwell9s
two daughters following
the death of their mother,
they immediately knew
they needed to make special
blankets for the girls. They
will be given to the Fullhart
Insurance office in Sisters
where Jenny worked to be
passed onto the girls.
Tomjack recently worked
with a local Girl Scout troop
to make 23 blankets, includ-
ing the one given to Kaenon.
The blankets are made by
joining two equal-sized
pieces of fleece and tying the
fringe around the edges of
each piece together. There is
no sewing involved and the
blankets can be completed in
one two-hour session.
Sisters Heartwarmers
workshops are held the first
and third Tuesdays of each
month from 1-2:30 p.m. at
Sisters City Hall. There are
teddy-bear-making sessions
twice a month in Sisters at
Suttle Tea. The bears play-
fully coordinate with the
blankets, all by coincidence.
For the month of
February, Heartwarmers
will be the recipient of the
proceeds from Dining for a
Cause sponsored by Cork
Cellars.
For those who feel the
tug to join Heartwarmers or
Ten-month Kaenon and his mother Ashlee received a soft blanket from
Heartwarmers last week.
make a donation, they can
be reached at 541-408-8505
or hwb.Heartwarmers@
gmail.com. Tomjack can
be reached at 503-880-
5832. Visit their website at
www.Heartwarmersco.org,
which will also link with
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