A Thunder Bay Special Olympic athlete is using her passion to help others by knitting scarves.
Yvette DeGagne tells us she had to do something to stay busy during COVID-19.
Her sister Karen adds she knits for family, friends and the Lutheran Community Care Centre, “To [help] people with disabilities who don’t have much.”
“I’ll give it to Lutheran Care Centre that doesn’t have scarves,” Yvette notes. “I have a pile of them waiting to give to the Lutheran Care right now.”
Karen says she got the idea from watching the news. “Someone in New York City was knitting scarves, and wrapping them around trees in Central Park. And anyone who needed a scarf would take one.”
Similar projects have previously cropped up in Thunder Bay.
Yvette adds she started doing it because she simply can’t sit still and do nothing all day. She can’t participate in Special Olympics, or go bowling, or see her friends, so she explains she’s turned to knitting and going for walks.
