Front-line Mask Maker Sheros- D Kuhnline, AB McKensie

GrassRoot Ohio radio/podcast - Fridays, 5pm EST, 94.1FM Columbus & streaming worldwide @ wgrn.org Carolyn Harding w/ Dana Kuhnline, and Allison Beer McKenzie, Ohio Front-line Mask Maker Sheros. When COVID-19 hit Ohio in March, I followed Dana’s posts about making masks for front line workers. She shared info and links from Sew Masks 4 Cincy - patterns for seamstresses to make masks that work for workers. Where are we now with the resurgence of COVID cases and with school starting up soon? Dana Kuhnline began sewing as a young child. Her quilts have won numerous prizes, including a blue ribbon for People's Choice at the Ohio State Fair. She is also busy as an environmental advocate and has worked as a non-profit consultant for over a decade. She enjoyed sewing as an escape from this frequently stressful work. She never thought her fun sewing hobby would be used to save lives. Since March, she has sewn over 600 masks for adults and is currently working to sew as many more for children as schools start up again. She is also planning a scrap quilt from all her leftover scraps from mask making. Allison is an architect at SHP in Cincinnati by day and the Director of Sewing for Sew Masks 4 Cincy on evenings and weekends. Allison is responsible for working with the mask users to develop the patterns for sewists and answering questions about sewing from volunteers. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Allison has completed roughly 1000 masks for friends, family and donation. She saw the need and rose to the challenge. sewmasks4cincy.org masks4humanity.org Indigenous Environmental Network ienearth.org GrassRoot Ohio w/ Carolyn Harding - Conversations with every-day people, working on important issues here in Columbus and all around Ohio! Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org We now air on Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://