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* Childrens Hospital NICU
* Donations
* Crazy for Garage Sales?
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* Sharing Thanks
* Special Thanks
* Mile-A-Minute Quilt Days
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* Kids Rule!
* Thanks for the Donations
* Passport Pouch Fundraiser
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* Delivering
Baby Items
* 5-Country Comparison on Volunteerism
* Magnolia Hill Connection
* Special Request for Knitters and Crocheters
* Springtime Blessings
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* Help
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* Community Baby Shower
* Stain Removal Tips
* Stuffed Toy Tips
* Drawstring Gown Safety Tips
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* Rochester
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*Board Members
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* Metro
Area Work Groups
Kids RULE!
Some of our best volunteers are also our youngest. Here are some examples:
- Happy Explorer’s 4-H club, who stuffed about 20 small teddy bears at their April monthly meeting.
- Ryan Prinsen, who selected fabric and made a quilt for the Kueker quad’s 9-year-old brother
- Robert Prinsen, who posted volunteer recruitment fliers in all metro-area Mill End stores.
- Ryan and Miranda Prinsen, who stuffed teddy bears and other small toys for infant bundles.
- Marjie Volk who regularly helps by putting snaps on bibs, and helped press seams at our Mile-a-Minute quilting workshop.
- Kelsey Dowd, who came up with the idea to make receiving blankets for a 4-H project, and then donated her work to Bundles of Love.
- The Kelley girls, who assembled baskets for the Kueker family and completed a 4-H Citizenship project by making additional baskets of infant clothing and care items for Bundles of Love.
- Riley Peterson and Marie Bandzak, who helped the North Metro group put snaps on sleepers.
Volunteer Lisa Haugdahl recently found a way to help some special babies while assisting eight girls achieve an important goal. Lisa, who is also a coop leader of St. Croix Valley Brownie Troop 1841 of Eagan, suggested that the troop help Bundles of Love by sewing teddy bears.
The girls, Talia, Maggie, Kayla, Claire, Molly, Kristen, Samantha and Maddy, eagerly responded and each made one bear. Then, with South Metro Coordinator Ruth Volk, they personally delivered the bears to the Special Care Nursery at Fairview Ridges Hospital in Burnsville.
The nurses were delighted with the gifts, and some bears immediately made their way to new moms and babies. The girls also had a chance to see several newborns, including two Special Care babies.
The experience helped them earn their Community Service badges and contributed toward the sewing portion of their craft badges. Earning these badges bridges the way to Jr. Girl Scouts. Thank you to Lisa and the girls for thinking of Bundles of Love and the babies we serve!
Kids are remarkably willing to help others, and what a gift to themselves this kind of work can be!
Kids who volunteer grow up to be adults who volunteer, so please encourage young people with whom you come in contact to look for ways to volunteer in their communities. They’ll feel good about themselves while helping others!
Thank You To All The Following For Their Generous Donations:
Funds:
- Donna Stratioti, Duluth, MN. “In celebration of babies”
- Dorothy Stohl, Iron River, WI, in memory of her grandson Joshua Oaks
- Jeanette Dunham, Bloomington, MN, in memory of her mother Margaret Park
- Church of the Annunciation “Happy Birthday Jesus” celebration, Northfield, funds and baby supplies.
- Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church Children in Need fund, Apple Valley
- Shepherd of the Valley Women’s Ministries, Apple Valley, for the purchase of sewing machines
- Calvary Episcopal Churchwomen, Rochester, for the purchase of polar fleece
- Preston Village Community Chest, Preston
- AAL Branch 5241, Rochester
- Ed-Ventures, Inc., Rochester, in support of our passport pouch fundraiser
- Other individuals who prefer to remain anonymous.
Sewing Machines:
Hope
Presbyterian Church, Richfield
Julie Bentley, Apple Valley
Jim & Maxine Fencl, Rochester
Mary Jane Jones, Rochester
Amy Moore, Rochester
Carol Haas, New Brighton
Nancy Velure, Inver Grove Heights
Work Space for Monthly Meetings:
New Brighton Family Service Center, New Brighton
Assisi Heights/ Sisters of Saint Francis, Rochester
Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, Apple Valley
Supplies or Baby Items:
- Snap Source in Troy, Michigan, for pronged snaps for use on our infant clothing.
- Textile Center, for supplies left over from their Capital Funds Drive garage sale.
- Eagan Hills Church in Eagan for baby care items.
- St. Joseph’s Parish, Council of Catholic Women in Theilman for their Lenten service project of handmade quilts and other baby items.
- Mary Kay’s Bridal Shop in Richfield for fine fabric remnants to make burial outfits.
- Many others who donated supplies, gently-used, new and handmade baby clothing and blankets
Passport Pouch Fundraiser
Thanks to the Rochester work group for their hard work and dedication in taking on an extra project and making passport pouches for Ed-Ventures, Inc., as a fundraiser this past spring.
More than 700 pouches were sewn, and approximately $2500 was raised to help cover our expenses and pay for supplies and baby care items.
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