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Tarpon Springs Sisters Use Sewing Skills To Make Face Masks

These East Lake Middle School students are using their extra time during the school closures to sew face masks.

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East Lake Middle School students, sisters Laura and Lilly Bell, along with their mother, Kathy, are using their extra time during the school closures to sew face masks. (Bell family )
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East Lake Middle School students, sisters Laura and Lilly Bell, along with their mother, Kathy, are using their extra time during the school closures to sew face masks. (Bell family )
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East Lake Middle School students, sisters Laura and Lilly Bell, along with their mother, Kathy, are using their extra time during the school closures to sew face masks. (Bell family )
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East Lake Middle School students, sisters Laura and Lilly Bell, along with their mother, Kathy, are using their extra time during the school closures to sew face masks. (Bell family )
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East Lake Middle School students, sisters Laura and Lilly Bell, along with their mother, Kathy, are using their extra time during the school closures to sew face masks. (Bell family)
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Another sister duo, Kate and Kallie Butts, joined the Bell sisters in making masks. (Butts family )
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Another sister duo, Kate and Kallie Butts, joined the Bell sisters in making masks. (Butts family )
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The girls have made more than 100 masks. (Bell family )

TARPON SPRINGS, FL — East Lake Middle School students, sisters Laura and Lilly Bell, along with their mother, Kathy, are using their extra time during the school closures to sew face masks for family, friends, special needs children and employees at businesses like Winn-Dixie.

So far, the Bell sisters have sewed more than 100 masks.

Another sister duo, Kate and Kallie Butts, joined the Bell sisters in making masks. All four sisters are friends and attend East Lake Middle School together.

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The masks are free but any donations the sisters receive are given to Feeding the Fosters, a nonprofit group helping kids in foster care.

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