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COLUMBIA, MD. — The Columbia Maryland Stake Relief Society women's conference drew the attention of the Washington Post's weekly Howard section that featured the humanitarian service project on the cover of the March 16 section.
The service project centered around the making and assembling of 400 newborn kits. The article detailed how Sister Valerie Sucher, stake Relief Society president, returned from a women's conference in Utah with the ambition to organize a women's conference for her stake.
More than 200 women from the stake and community joined March 11 to sew receiving blankets and layette gowns for the newborn kits. Youth of the stake met to put finishing touches on wooden building blocks they had been cutting, sanding and painting during the weeks prior to the conference.
The Washington Post article described how the sisters came with 800 yards of flannel, 400 bars of soap and 52 sewing machines and were able to make 400 newborn kits during their five-hour project.
