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PRESS RELEASE: February 27, 2007
Contact: Teresa Mitchell, 315-646-1000, Carmen Blackmore, 315-921-5766
These children were among the first to receive quilts from the Fort Drum Operation Kid Comfort project. Photo: Operation Kid Comfort.
Fort Drum Operation Kid Comfort at March 16-18 Seaway Trail Quilt Show
Sackets Harbor, NY -- The Fort Drum chapter of Operation Kid Comfort, a project that creates quilts for the children of deployed soldiers, will be recruiting at the Seaway Trail Quilt Show & Competition March 16-18 at the Seaway Trail Discovery Center in Sackets Harbor, NY.
Carmen Blackmore, who coordinates the effort on behalf of Fort Drum families, says the quilts help children deal with missing their military parent during deployment and more volunteers are needed to keep up with the demand for the quilts. The Fort Drum project started last October and has already completed 80 quilts.
“These quilts are needed. They are something tangible that the children can hold on to and take comfort from for dealing with the stress of missing a parent,” Blackmore says. “The quilts are making a difference with the children and we need volunteers to make more quilts. The Seaway Trail Quilt Show will provide us a great venue for asking people to help.”
At the Seaway Trail Quilt Show, Blackmore will have finished quilts, including two made for her children while their dad was deployed overseas, and a photo book of all of the 80 quilts completed so far for Fort Drum families. She will also have kits available for interested quilters. The kids include batting, backing, thread and pre-cut fabric with the photos of a soldier and his or her family. A photo-transfer process is used to create the family-specific fabric.
The quilts measure 30 inches x 40 inches. Blackmore says the quilts take less than five hours to complete. Families requesting the quilts are promised a completed project in four to six weeks.
The Seaway Trail Quilt Show and Competition begins at the Seaway Trail Discovery Center with a Friday evening preview from 6 to 7:30 pm. The Saturday-Sunday 10 am to 5 pm program includes Viewers Choice judging in four categories of Great Lakes Fish themed quilts and hangings. Bassmaster and quilter JoAnne Flood will speak each day at 1 pm on Quilting and Angling for Both Sexes. There will be demonstrations and a variety of vendors with fabric, quilting machines, notions, baskets and other goods.
The winners of the Seaway Trail Quilt Show Competition will receive gift certificates redeemable at Coleman Family Restaurants: Kathy’s Barracks Inn in Sackets Harbor and the Fairgrounds Inn, Watertown, and at The Gift Shop at the Discovery Center. Entries will be accepted through March 13. Rules and registration are online at www.seawaytrail.com.
Admission to all three days of the show is $4 total. The Seaway Trail Discovery Center is at the corner of Ray and West Main Streets on the Sackets Harbor waterfront. The 518-mile Seaway Trail along the St. Lawrence River, Lake Ontario, the Niagara River and Lake Erie in New York and Pennsylvania is a federally-designated National Scenic Byway and National Recreation Trail. The Seaway Trail Discovery Center is operated by Seaway Trail, Inc. and the Seaway Trail Foundation in the historic former Union Hotel (1817-18) owned by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. # # #
