CRRC seniors make Valentine cards

Valentine's Day may be a couple weeks away, but residents at the Mission at Castle Rock Rehabilitation Center were already making cards.

On Friday, the crafts with Kathy Elliott program was full of residents making Valentine's Day cards.

Elliott said all of the cards created by the residents will be sent to the Veterans Hospital in Salt Lake City.

"We've sent over 100 for the last two years so we're hoping to reach that," Elliott said.

Last year, the group creating the cards spent two Fridays doing so.

"That's what we will do this week and next week," she said.

The idea came from a newspaper article Elliott saw in the Green River Star a couple years ago. The article asked volunteers to take some time and send cards to those at the Veterans Hospital.

"It's a big national thing," she said.

This is one of the CRRC residents' favorite projects. Most of the residents feel like they are always having people do things for them.

"This is a chance for them to do something for others," Elliott said.

Elliott had all different kinds of cards for the residents to decorate with all kinds of stickers. The cards were in pink, purple, orange, white, blue and green, and were in all kinds of shapes, including hearts, rectangles and squares.

Elliott had all types of stickers, from hearts and stars to footballs, monster trucks and race cars.

Elliott thought some male CRRC residents would help out with the project so she made sure there were stickers they would like to put on the cards. Most of the cards also had a sticker on it that said "Happy Valentine's Day." The cards also have a sticker on the back of them telling the veteran the card came from the rehabilitation center.