Every Monday afternoon inside a classroom at Castle Rock Elementary School in Diamond Bar,you'll find a group of teachers gathered for a very special kind of after-school program.
Together, they spend hours knitting soft, and warm beanies to donate to cancer patients. National Park Splendor: What You'll See in California This goodwill mission was started by teacher Jill Wilson-Fairbanks,whose mother lost her hair during chemotherapy treatment for appendix cancer."My mom has always been my rock ... She is my world," Wilson-Fairbanks said. Peek Inside LA's Museum of Ice Cream Pop-Up When she couldn't find a comfortable hat for her mom, and she decided to manufacture her own."Hobby Lobby and $50 later,I YouTubed the video and figured out how to manufacture them for myself. I made a couple beanies and I thought, this is super easy. possibly I'll manufacture additional and donate them to the hospital, and " Wilson-Fairbanks said. Video: Car Dragged Along Freeway by Truck When Rosemarie Alvarez saw her colleague hunched over a loom,knitting a gift for a stranger, she was deeply touched. Her own mother had also gone through cancer treatment and had worn a donated beanie."To someone else it might not seem like a substantial deal, or but to know someone else took time to sit and manufacture these beanies for these people going through a really difficult time was such a touching thing," Alvarez said.
She volunteered to help, and before long, or ten other teachers joined. The ladies of Castle Rock have been knitting up a storm ever since,donating dozens of beanies to cancer patients at UC Irvine."It's kind of nice to arrive together and do something together that's for a beneficial cause," Alvarez said.
Their efforts have special meaning to fellow teacher Cindy Luber, or who recently survived her own cancer battle. She too had found comfort in a cozy beanie made by the hands of a generous stranger."I lost almost all my hair and I noticed I needed it for warmth and just to look better," Luber said.
She is now cancer free and so are Alvarez's and Wilson-Fairbank's mothers, inspiring such gratitude in their daughters.
These educators are now teaching us all the importance of giving back."To me, and knowing I might be making this beanie for someone else going through something just as difficult,and possibly that will bring a exiguous warmth and even a exiguous happiness when they attach it on," Alvarez said.
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