On Saturday, February 20th a group of LCM students volunteered at Clemson Downs to tie blankets with the residents of Creekside Cottage, the Assisted Living part of the retirement community. Blanket tying is a reoccurring service project of LCM’s and when the opportunity arose, we thought it would be a great idea to take it a step further. A group of about 8 volunteers and I carpooled to Clemson Downs at 11 am and were escorted into the building by the events planner who started recruiting residents for us to socialize with. We broke up into two groups so that we could visit with the residents on multiple floors. My group had about 3 women join us at one point. It wasn’t very hard to teach them how to tie the blankets, and they loved to hear that we bring the blankets to places like the children’s hospital. While tying the blankets we had great conversations. We talked about things like our favorite movies and what we studied in school. After about an hour, our group was tired and dissipated. We went to join the other group that had about 6 residents surrounded around a table tying the blankets. The residents seemed to really enjoy spending time with us, and I know we enjoyed it too. Giving them something new to do, even for just an hour, clearly meant a lot to them. I loved seeing their smiling faces. I hope that LCM can volunteer there again soon!
-Lindsey Noll Comments are closed.
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