Western News: September 22, 2022
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Thursday <strong>September</strong> <strong>22</strong> 20<strong>22</strong> 3<br />
Seniors embark on bear-making mission<br />
NGAIO MARSH Retirement<br />
Village residents have been<br />
knitting up a storm with a Yuri<br />
Bear-making mission.<br />
The Ryman Healthcare Yuri<br />
Bear project aims to make 20,000<br />
knitted teddy bears for some of<br />
the millions of children displaced<br />
in the Ukraine since the country<br />
was invaded by Russia.<br />
The project is a labour of love<br />
for Debra Richardson, Ryman’s<br />
Victorian sales and community<br />
relations manager, whose former<br />
foster son Yuri remains in<br />
Ukraine. Debra and her family<br />
fostered Yuri in Melbourne following<br />
the Chernobyl nuclear<br />
disaster in the 1980s.<br />
A group of Ngaio Marsh residents<br />
have been meeting in the<br />
village centre for as long as most<br />
remember. Give them a task or<br />
challenge, they say, and the team<br />
will come through. Together<br />
village residents and staff have<br />
knitted about 160 teddy bears.<br />
Valerie Dent, Shirley<br />
Butterfield, Erin Wilson, Lois<br />
Goold, Alison Chaffey, Thirza<br />
Smith, Maree Comfort, Gill<br />
Skinner and Wendy Walker are<br />
members of the knitting group,<br />
which meets regularly, and have<br />
taken up the Yuri Bear challenge.<br />
The group of dedicated<br />
ladies are also making woollen<br />
‘comfort’ blankets for those<br />
in need in eastern European<br />
countries, including the poorer<br />
parts of Moldova, Bulgaria, and<br />
Romania. The blankets are then<br />
supplied to the charity Operation<br />
Cover Up.<br />
Booties and small woollen<br />
beanies are also part of the<br />
production line, with Margaret<br />
Strangman, and Marjorie<br />
Treblicock, specialising in these.<br />
These lovingly made items<br />
are sent to the Christchurch<br />
Women’s Hospital neonatal unit.<br />
Lois says she has knitted<br />
about 30 of the Yuri bears,<br />
having been a bit house-bound<br />
during Covid-19. There were<br />
probably more than 30 residents<br />
throughout Ngaio Marsh village<br />
who had knitted a Yuri Bear,<br />
with many having produced 10<br />
or more.<br />
Every resident at Ryman’s<br />
45 villages and the company’s<br />
offices in Melbourne and<br />
Christchurch were challenged to<br />
contribute a bear.<br />
Debra said the project was a<br />
tangible way Ryman residents,<br />
team members and the wider<br />
community could make a small<br />
difference to the lives of the<br />
youngest members of the wartorn<br />
country.<br />
Erin Wilson says she has<br />
concentrated on the stitching<br />
faces onto the Yuri Bears. “It’s<br />
not hard. I’ve done quite a few of<br />
them. It’s just like darning,” she<br />
says.<br />
“I made the silly mistake of<br />
saying: ‘Well if you don’t want<br />
FUN: (Back row,<br />
left to right) –<br />
Alison Chaffey,<br />
Thirza Smith,<br />
Maree Comfort<br />
and (front row)<br />
Lois Goold and<br />
Erin Wilson, with<br />
a basket of Yuri<br />
Bears.<br />
to do the faces, I’ll do them’.<br />
And they all arrived at our craft<br />
group.”<br />
All members of the knitting<br />
group agree they feel better<br />
for doing something towards<br />
those impacted by the war in<br />
Ukraine.<br />
Valerie and the ladies say<br />
they would welcome any<br />
donations of wool to Ngaio<br />
Marsh Retirement Village for<br />
their projects.<br />
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