Dec. 9, 2009

Tidings of comfort

Tyler Bloch, president of the Menno chapter of the National Honor Society, works on a quilt last week Thursday, Dec. 3, at the Menno City-School Auditorium. Bloch was one of many NHS students and other volunteers who gathered as part of Operation Christmas Cover Up, a program that delivers blankets and a stuffed animal to young children of the National Guard unit Charlie Battery. The NHS is also once again sponsoring the Angel Tree project as part of its community service obligation.
PHOTO BY ERIK KAUFMAN


Mary Jo Mettler, center left, and Rachel Hecht, center right, tie tassels during Operation Christmas Cover Up Thursday night, Dec. 3 at the Menno City-School Auditorium.

Courtney Schaeffer works on a quilt on the floor of the Menno City-School Auditorium Thursday night, Dec. 3.

Emily Schnabel begins to cut tassels along the edge of some material during Operation Christmas Cover Up Thursday, Dec. 3.

Geraldine Schultz and Loretta Kirschenman take part in the Operation Christmas Cover Up project, which was sponsored by the Menno chapter of the National Honor Society.

Courtney Schaeffer and Allie Zanter put the finishing touch – a stuffed monkey – on a newly finished blanket. The goal of the project is to provide a blanket and stuffed animal to young children who currently have a parent or parents serving overseas with the National Guard's Charlie Battery unit.