HELENA — For 72 years, volunteers have gathered for the St. Peter’s Health Arlene Matthews Sock Sew.
This year broke the record with over 70 volunteers, cutting, sewing, and decorating stockings for newborns and patients in the hospital.
“I love to volunteer and love to see the babies be stuffed into these big red socks and even the patients that get the smaller ones,” Linda Wollitz, a volunteer for over a decade, said.
All babies born at the hospital in December get a stocking to have their picture in and to take home as a memory, and patients who are in the hospital on Christmas will receive a stocking filled with fruits and other goodies.
“The joy that we have made in putting them together is just wonderful,” Wollitz said. “Everybody loves to work together, and you meet new friends too.”
This year, 70 baby stockings were made and 110 stockings for patients.
