Recently on our evening news there was a short story about a
local charitable organization called Art
à la Carte which has been operating in Calgary for 20 years. Their mandate
is to “bring art, conversation, and joy to long-term patients by transforming
sterile hospital rooms and treatment areas into places of greater comfort and
hope.” (From the Art à la Carte website.)
A very few short days later we were contacted by one of
their coordinators asking if the Fibre Optics Group would be interested in providing some backless
hospital gowns to be used as table décor for their annual fundraising event in
September. It was a serendipitous moment that had to be acted upon.
I suppose that I must have made clothes for my dolls growing
up but it was my mom who provided my sisters and me with wonderful hand knit
sweaters and hand sewn clothes for our dolls. Later in her life she rescued,
cleaned, repaired and clothed dolls each year to donate to the Kelowna
Firemen’s charity to be given to children at Christmas.
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Making the hospital gowns for the Gowns without Bounds
event in September was a neat way to remember that significant detail about my
mom and her life.
Jan and I tied the last bow today and they are ready for
delivery.
Visit Art à la Carte’s website to learn
more about their programs, how you can donate or volunteer.
