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Delta Seat Covers Turn Up in North Carolina Youth Conference
SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA -- Some of the 50,000 seat covers donated by Delta
Air Lines to the LDS Church to be turned into school bags for children in
Third World countries have appeared in Salisbury, North Carolina. Some of
the 275 youth attending a youth conference at Salisbury's Catawba College
Friday worked on the project, cutting out school-bag patterns from the seat
covers, one of three service projects the youth worked on during the
conference. Some of the youth also spent the last several weeks ripping out
the seams from the covers so they would be ready for Friday, and the bags
will be completed during a Wake County Latter-day Saints Women's Day in
November. From there, the bags will be shipped to the church's Humanitarian
Service Center in Salt Lake City for distribution to impoverished nations.
Thousands of the bags, filled with school supplies, have already been sent
to children in El Salvador, Peru and India.
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Young Mormon volunteers convert airline seat covers to school bags
Salisbury NC Post 28Jul01 US NC Char D1
By Mark Wineka: Salisbury Post
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