KENTWOOD - Jackie Weersing spied the article in the American Legion's Auxiliary Magazine and thought she just might have a new project for the local post in Kentwood, which she was president of at the ...

You may think of plastic bags as handy vessels for getting things from the store to your house. You may think of them as an environmental scourge. For Pat Roby, they are a way to help the homeless.

FROM DISCARDED PLASTIC BAGS TO SOMETHING THAT BRINGS COMFORT AND HOPE. A LOCAL CHURCH IS TURNING EVERYDAY TRASH INTO A TANGIBLE ACT OF KINDNESS. JOYCE OGIRRI SHOWS US THE CREATIVE WAY VOLUNTEERS ARE ...

Homewood Recycling celebrated America Recycles Day on Tuesday by transforming plastics bag into "plarn." A handful of faculty, staff, and students stopped by Johns Hopkins University's Shriver Hall to ...

Trude Park, 79, of Tyler, was amazed when she found out the same kinds of plastic bags she’d thrown away for years could be used to create sleeping mats for the homeless. Ms. Park has been crocheting ...