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Kendall’s Homemade Potholders
Eight-year-old Kendall Manuel of Locke, New York, used her favorite COVID-quarantine hobby to raise more than $1,400 for several children’s hospitals and an area animal shelter.
In an interview with The New American, Kendall said it all began when her father came down with COVID in January, forcing Kendall and her family to quarantine at their home. Kendall’s teacher dropped off her assignments, which included a potholder-making project she started for Valentine’s Day. Kendall enjoyed it so much that by mid-April, she had made more than 150 potholders and decided she would sell them.
Kendall’s mother, Amy, assumed Kendall would use the money she would earn to purchase a Nintendo Switch, but Kendall apparently had other things in mind. She told her mother she would donate the money to Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital in Syracuse, New York, and the Home Stretch Dog Haven in Moravia, New York.
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