New crafts group makes 205 Easter baskets

Posted 3/25/21

Anne Marie Beccia and her sister Linda Wright set out to start a crafts-making group. They ended up making 205 Easter baskets for Powell senior citizens.

The pair moved to the area earlier this …

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Anne Marie Beccia and her sister Linda Wright set out to start a crafts-making group. They ended up making 205 Easter baskets for Powell senior citizens.

The pair moved to the area earlier this year from Los Angeles, where they hosted a crafts group in their homes. Up to 20 ladies, Beccia said, would come to the regular meetings. 

After COVID-19 hit, L.A. was in lockdown for months. The women couldn’t advertise their groups, as even home gatherings were restricted by the city’s strict public health orders. 

After moving to Powell, Beccia said she looked around for a similar group and didn’t find anything like that here. 

“Here, there are no needlepoint or needlework shops, or classes or anything like that. So we were trying to bring that to Powell,” Beccia explained. 

The sisters approached the Powell Senior Center about organizing a group there, and the center was happy to give them a place to hold the meetings. 

In the course of holding their first craft activities, they decided to make Easter baskets. Beccia said a lot of people stepped up to help and the project kind of exploded. 

“It was just the two of us and now, look,” Beccia said from next to a pile of the colorful baskets full of Easter grass. 

They just finished making the baskets on Tuesday, and they’ll distribute them today (Thursday) and Friday. Some will be handed out during the lunch at the center, and others will be delivered with the home meals from the senior center. The rest will be delivered to residents at Rocky Mountain Manor. 

The group will continue to meet every Tuesday, from 9-11 a.m., and every Friday from 1-3 p.m. They do needlework, crochet, rock painting, and knitting. Next month, they’ll start on a May Day project, which is yet to be determined. 

“You don’t have to be a senior,” Beccia said. 

They hope more will join the group, getting more people involved to share in these crafts. 

“We come to make friends and cheer up the community,” Wright said. 

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