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photo/Ian Gleadle
“ Your actions have led the way to show this community how groups can band
together and achieve grand things,” Fran Walster, director of the Maltby
Food Bank wrote in a letter addressed to the Gang from Clearview CafÈ above.
(l-r) Janelle Garvin, Pam Shepherd, Carla Cannon, Pat Korten (owner), Pat Lindsey,
Frankie Goodwin, Tina Vaughn. (Julia Jones and Linda Johnson not shown) |
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Quilting
their spirit together
By
Bronwyn Wilson
Senior Staff Writer |
They
didn’t call themselves the Gang from the
Clearview Café in the beginning. Nor did
they set out to achieve mighty things. Instead,
eight spirited women began meeting at the café to
share friendship, laughter and conversation.
During one of their café gabfests, their
chat turned toward the topic of charity. An inspiration
came over them. Why not unite their lively camaraderie
and give something back to their community? Agreeing
the suggestion was a good idea, they began brainstorming
ways to raise money for a local charity. One
of them threw out an offbeat thought. Frankie
Goodwin, one of the group’s members, explained, “We
were all sitting in the cocktail lounge at the
Clearview Café and we were thinking of
a charity project we’d like to do. Then
somebody said, ‘One of the things we could
do is make a quilt out of Crown Royal bags.’ And
we all laughed.”
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