Helping Hands: Pine Shores Art Association volunteers and the Seaport Stitchers Quilt Guild in Tuckerton joined together to support front-line medical personnel at local hospitals and other essential workers, by producing 1,500 masks for hospital personnel to use over top of their N95 masks and thereby prolonging their effectiveness.
Every week the sewers turned in bags of finished masks that went mainly to Southern Ocean Medical Center but were also sent to Community Medical Center in Toms River, Monmouth Medical Center, the N.J. State Troopers, Jersey Shore University Hospital and several other locations. Some fun stats on the mask making: 750 hours of labor, 270 bobbins refilled, 11 miles of thread.
Snappy: Pine Shores Art Association’s “Photography Show” is online at pineshoresartassociation.org. The show was judged by photographer Mike Lipton with awards posted May 11.
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