Randolph County News

In Asheboro, North Carolina, residents with sewing skills are being asked to pick up sewing kits to produce personal protective face masks to donate to those in need throughout the county. 

Randolph Senior Adults Association (RSSA) is asking people to pick up mask kits from their porch and anyone that wants to help out the community can pick up a kit and start making masks, according to the Courier-Tribune. 

“I have distributed about 100 to individuals, a small group of city workers, all of RCATS drivers and staff of RSAA,” said Ginger Flynt, education and communications coordinator for the RSSA told the Courtier-Tribune. “I am sure there are at least 500 masks being assembled that have been picked up from this project but not returned yet. My understanding is the amount of fabric and elastic donated would yield about 1,200 masks.”

Police officers in the area joining the effort too, the Courier-Tribune reported. 

Master Police Officer Guadalupe Gonzalez has been producing face mask for a Facebook group called Face Mask Warriors, according to the Courier-Tribune. Community groups can contact the Facebook group and request masks to be made. 

“She prepared these masks in her own time with her own material,” Officer Traci Fisher, who asked Gonzalez to donate masks to the residents of Capsn Homes, told the Courier-Tribune. “All of my residents are elderly and she made contact with the majority of them, while using precautions, to instruct proper use of the mask during this hectic time.”

Gonzalez was gifted a large amount of fabric a few years back and didn't know what to do with until now. She told the Courier-Tribune that she can make about 100 masks at a time.

“I always wanted to do something with that fabric for donation,” she told the Courier-Tribune. “I hadn’t figured out what to do with it until this.”