Residents At Pine Run In Doylestown Complete 27,000th 'Good Bear'

DOYLESTOWN, PA — The Good Bears Committee at Presbyterian Senior Living Pine Run Village in Doylestown celebrated a historic milestone earlier this month: the completion of its 27,000th “Good Bear.”

The Good Bears Committee was formed in 1989, when eight women began hand-crafting teddy bears to donate to children at Doylestown Hospital’s emergency room. Over the past 36 years, more than 27,000 bears have now been sewn and donated to area hospitals, including Doylestown, Grandview, Lansdale, The Cancer Institute and the Health Center at Pine Run.

About a dozen volunteers meet weekly, while another dozen people sew at home. Their duties include tracing and cutting the bodies and creating the faces, then sewing and stuffing the bears, which are finished with a Pine Run tag on their collars.

A representative bear wearing a commemorative 27,000th tag was placed in a glass showcase to join four other bears wearing tags for numbers 10,000, 20,000, 25,000 and 26,000.

The Good Bears Committee at Pine Run. (Submitted)