Pomona Lions Club seeking help with homeless project

Pomona Host Lions Club is looking for volunteers to help provide comfort to the homeless while also helping the environment.
The club turn recycled plastic bags into sleeping mats at its monthly PlarnFest from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at Oct. 9, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 242 E. Alvarado St.
Completed sleeping mats are given to local homeless shelters.
Workers will help with all phases of making ground mats – from straightening and then cutting the bags into strips, to loop-tying the strips into “plarn,” and finally crocheting the “plarn” into mats. “Plarn” is the compressed word for plastic yarn.

Volunteers are asked to bring scissors. People who know how to crochet should bring a size Q hook.
Information: pomonahostlions@gmail.com or mats4homeless@yahoo.com.