Bonnie Hellman uses sewing talents to aid orphanages in Haiti

For more than a year Bonnie Hellman, of Chinook, has been using her sewing skills to help orphans in Haiti. The retired elementary teacher collects (she taught 27 years in Harlem), cuts and sews cotton t-shirts in to 'diapers' that eventually are used in four orphanages on the Caribbean island. She got interested in the ministry when she met another seamstress who was showing one of the homemade diapers to a group at a senior center in Culbertson, Montana. Since she started making the diapers, she's completed 18 dozen.

A history of sewing

Hellman said of her lifelong interest in sewing, "I tau...