SOUTH RANGE – Every October, several local churches send quilts, school kits and baby layettes and health kits to Lutheran World Relief be shipped to where they are needed most. Katie Bridgers, administrative ministry coordinator at Grace Lutheran Church in South Range said the church has been doing this for more than 40 years. “We are one of several congregations that are doing this,” Bridgers said.

Last Wednesday, the ladies in the quilting group spent the afternoon packing and getting all items ready to be picked up Friday. This year there were 135 locally crafted, handmade quilts and blankets to be packed. “They’ll go to two different warehouses,” said volunteer Christine Davis, “one in Minnesota and one in Maryland. They go whenever there is a catastrophe.”

Although the items someti

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