A Carroll-area native is hoping to give back to the community Friday and Saturday by providing facemasks, for a freewill donations, to individuals who may not have one yet. Amanda Lanners is a 1998 Carroll High School graduate, but now lives near Sioux Falls, S.D. Lanners began sewing masks for friends and family near the beginning of the pandemic. Word started to spread, and people began offering donations when picking up their face coverings. Lanners says she ended up using those donations to purchase more materials to make more masks.
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While speaking with her mother, Marcia, Lanners learned that there were still many people around Carroll that did not have a mask yet and decided to bring several hundred of the homemade masks to distribute here this weekend. Lanners says three generations of her family are now involved with her daughter, Theresa, and her parents.
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Lanners adds they’ve made so many masks that it has become difficult to keep track of them all. There are two ways to get your mask. The first is to pick them up from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. tomorrow (Friday) from her parents’ house at 20083 270th Street, approximately six miles south of Carroll. Masks are available again Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 635 West 2nd Street near Reiling’s Gas Station. According to Lanners, their goal is to make sure everybody can do what they can to protect themselves, their families and their neighbors from the coronavirus.
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To get the most out of these masks, Lanners says some sort of filter will need to be added to the sewn-in pocket.