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Photo from Brianne Snow Over $21,000 has been raised by the group over the past year The Bag Ladies started out in 2008 when a few women began to make reusable bags out of clothes that wouldn’t sell in the Family & Intercultural Resource Center’s thrift store. When the pandemic created a massive need for cotton facial coverings, The Bag Ladies stepped up to the plate, sewing masks and giving profits and donations to the resource center. Since the group’s founding, over $200,000 have been raised. Close to 5,000 masks have been made this year. Brianne Snow, the Family & Intercultural Resource Center’s executive director, explained that The Bag Ladies program started in 2008 when thrift store volunteer Kay Bullington noticed that a lot of clothing that couldn’t be sold ended up getting thrown away. Bullington decided to recycle these clothes by washing them and making them into bags for a suggested donation. Bullington has since moved away and the position of Lead Bag Lady

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