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Wednesday, April 1, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
MASKS: Freshly
laundered masks were
delivered on Saturday
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online video instruction was
provided.
Their labor produced 390
masks as of noon on the fifth
day, which fell last Friday.
On Saturday, they delivered
350 freshly laundered masks
to The Lodge in Sisters, a
senior living facility. This
week, 30 will go to the office
of Dr. May Fan in Sisters.
Ten will be delivered to Our
House, an adult foster home
in Sisters. Medical profes-
sionals at all three facilities
will use the masks to help
protect patients, staff, and
residents.
Shepherd noted, <When
we started, few healthcare
providers in the region were
formally encouraging pro-
duction of homemade masks.
That quickly changed. Now,
healthcare providers like the
St. Charles Health System
have published preferred
designs. In the space of the
same week in which we built
the 5 Day/500 Mask network,
vigorous self-organizing
Forest
Service halts
prescribed
burning
The Deschutes and
Ochoco National Forests
and Crooked River National
Grassland have announced
that all prescribed fire igni-
tions have been postponed
until further notice.
<In consideration of the
seriousness of the COVID-
19 pandemic locally and in
our region, all burning will be
suspended at this time,= said
Kassidy Kern, USFS Public
Affairs Specialist. <The safety
and health of our communi-
ties are our highest priority.
Potential smoke impacts to
the public are considered in
all prescribed fire and wild-
fire management.
<This decision to tem-
porarily postpone ignitions
will prevent any effects from
smoke that might further
worsen conditions for those
who are at risk in our com-
munities, while reducing
exposure for employees who
might not otherwise need to
travel, and creating social dis-
tancing for resources working
on a fire.=
Keep up with prescribed
burns in Central Oregon by
visiting: www.centraloregon
fire.org.
regional networks supporting
home-based production have
blossomed, mostly through
social media.=
It is important to note that
do-it-yourself masks made
from home will not replace
the heavy-duty, N95 surgical
masks. The all-cotton masks
created by Shepherd and his
team will be given to health-
care providers. They won9t
be made for patients or as
preventive measures for the
general public.
Age Friendly Sisters
Country (AFSC), a non-
profit organization that
responds to the needs of the
aging population by improv-
ing services for all, helped
the mask-making initiative
by getting the word out to
Sisters Country.
Board member John
Griffith told The Nugget,
<Lots of community vol-
unteers have been making
masks both for St. Charles
via the Central Oregon
Emergency Mask Makers,
and through Pete Shepherd9s
callout to Sisters to make
500 masks.=
East of the Cascade
Quilters Guild also put the
word out that masks were
needed.
Diane Tolzman said,
<Gilda Hunt and I are the co-
leaders of the guild and our
goal is to provide informa-
tion to our members on the
different opportunities avail-
able for them to make a dif-
ference in our community by
making fabric masks.=
The guild has 60 active
members and over 20 of
them, along with their fam-
ily and friends, have made
over 300 masks that were
donated to several different
groups: Partners in Care,
provides home health and
hospice services; St. Charles
Health System; Central
Oregon Emergency Mask
Makers, distributes masks to
local medical organizations;
Harmony Farm Sanctuary for
the volunteers who care for
the animals; and Shepherd9s
group, the 5 day/500 Mask
Challenge.
Valori Wells, co-owner of
The Stitchin9 Post, donated
fabric to Central Oregon
Emergency Mask Makers.
Tolzman added, <With the
shelter-in directive we are
not able to meet as a guild, so
this is a perfect way to share
our passion with others as a
group. It is a way to be pro-
active in a situation where it
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is easy to feel out of control.
This is a great at-home proj-
ect for quilters as we all have
a large <stash= of fabric and
sewing machines that can be
used to make masks. It isn9t
often that we can save a life
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Local artist Kit Stafford
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givers from Hospice and
Partners in Care.
<I am happy to put some
time in to help the precious
people on the front lines,=
she said.
<Many organizations
know that there are lots of
people that sew in Sisters. I
have a lot of fabric and I9ve
streamlined a system with a
pattern I can make in several
sizes. Some are subdued col-
ors, others are not. They can
be washed again and again.=
Shepherd added, <Now
that the 5 Day/500 Mask
Challenge is over. I deeply
appreciate the dedication all
our volunteers brought to
their work. Now I encour-
age all of them to sustain
their commitment by mak-
ing masks according to the
St. Charles model 4 or any
other model specifically
PHOTO PROVIDED
One project aimed to produce 500
masks in five days.
endorsed by any other
healthcare provider 4 and
by coordinating their efforts
through one of the new
social media networks for
home production, such as
Central Oregon Emergency
Mask Makers.= (Search
Central Oregon Emergency
Mask Makers on Facebook).
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