2 Friday, April 7, 2017 brooklintowncrier.com Still Spinning Good Yarns These ladies, residents of the Court at Brooklin, have spent months creating handwoven blankets which are donated to Hearth Place Cancer Support Centre in Oshawa. Their most recent work produced 26 blankets, some of which are pictured here. The women make the individual squares, 625 of them in this last batch, that are sewn together by Donna Wilson, a family member of a former resident. About every six months, they make new ones to donate to Hearth Place which in turn gives them to people enduring chemo treatments and to the children of cancer treatment patients. Carolyn Hoar (in the photo, seated on the couch's right arm) is Hearth Place's Volunteer and Pediatric Cancer Family Support Coordinator. She says the blankets also go to their Healing Kids Hearts program for children who have lost a sibling or parent. After a seven-week course on coping strategies, each child receives a blanket. They also go to those in Kids Connection for children whose parents currently have cancer. And now, after all that sewing and weaving, the yarn supply is running low. Sylvia Pugelj, Engage Life Coordinator at the Court, is asking the community for more. If you have yarn to donate, kindly drop it off at the Court because a few months from now, Hearth Place will again be in need. Rotary Club Fundraiser To Support Orphaned Haitian Children By Richard Bercuson You probably don't know who Morgan Wienberg is. Few people do. But that's going to change, if the local Rotary Club has anything to do with it. On April 28, Whitby's Rotary Club will host "To Haiti With Love," a fundraiser for a remark- able organization called "Little Footprints Big Steps." It was started seven years ago by Wien- berg, a Whitehorse high school grad, who was so moved by what had happened to children of the 2010 Haiti earthquake that she traded university for a plane ticket to Haiti to work with its sick and orphaned kids. Her remarkable efforts have resulted in accolades such as the Governor General's Meritorious Service Cross and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee medal. And on April 28, she will be at Brooklin's St. Thomas' Anglican Church to share her stories. Rotarian Sherri Bowness says the club was immediately attracted to the organization, "the very type of group they wanted to work with." The Brooklin Rotary Club is a satellite of the main Whitby one which uses about 60% of its resources for local-based efforts and 40% for international ones. Wienberg is a rather special young lady, Bowness says. "I think she is one of the angels walking the earth. Two of our members went to Haiti last May for a couple of weeks and called it a transformational experience. They returned even further committed to what we're doing." The evening's goal to raise $10k, 100% of which would go to Little Footprints Big Steps. Aside from the main attraction, Wienberg, the $50 per person event will feature Haitian dancers and entertainment, an art auction and genuine Haitian food. The evening will run from 7-10 pm at the church, 101 Winchester Road East. For tickets, visit rotarywhitby. org For more information about Morgan Wienberg and her organization, visit: littlefootprintsbigsteps.com