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Show SCENE The Park Record. FILM INSIDERS LIST THEIR PARKITES SING ‘WE ARE FAVORITES, B-6 THE WORLD,’ B-7 www.parkrecord.com B-5 SAT/SUN/MON/TUES, MARCH 28-31, 2020 Editor: Scott Iwasaki arts@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.15713 MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT GROUPS Join CONNECT Summit County and Expansive Horizons Counseling for free virtual mental health support group for Wasatch and Summit County from 9-10:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 28, and Monday, March 20. To register for Saturday’s session, visit bit.ly/2vPLapI. For information on Monday’s session, visit bit.ly/2WN5HGI. Donations are always accepted. This is a support group, and not a psychotherapy or a mental health crisis support. For information, visit connectsummitcounty.org. ROCKWELL LISTENING ROOM: NASHVILLE UNPLUGGED SUPPORTS LOCAL LIVE STREAMS Rockwell Room live streams Nashville Unplugged Supports Local nightly from 7-8 p.m. on Rockwell Room’s Instagram Live and Facebook Live platforms. The streams feature local musicians. Jessa Young will perform March 28, and Michelle Moonshine is scheduled for March 29. For information, visit https://www.facebook. com/oprockwell. TOASTMASTERS CONTINUE TO MEET VIRTUALLY Park City Toastmasters will continue meeting through Zoom at 7 a.m. every Tuesday. Guests are always welcome to participate. For information, visit pctoastmasters.com. TICKETS FOR ‘SISTER ACT’ ON SALE AT THE EGYPTIAN Tickets for ‘Sister Act,” which is scheduled to run from Friday through Sunday, May 22-24, and Thursday through Sunday, May 28-31, at the Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main St., are on sale now. Tickets range from $23-$43. For information, visit parkcityshows.com. COURTESY OF CAROL LIBRIZZI Park City resident Carol Librizzi is one of 6,000 seamstresses of Sewing for Lives who make covers for first-responders’ and healthcare workers’ medical-grade masks. Sewing for Live covers the need of preserving first-responders’ masks SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record On TV shows and films, superheroes such as Batman, Iron Man and Spider-Gwen wear masks, but during this real-life COVID-19, crisis the heroes are first responders. These daring medical and law-enforcement professionals, who are required to wear medical-grade masks during their jobs, are getting help from a new set of heroes in Summit County and Salt Lake City who are sewing covers to help preserve and prolong the lives of their masks. Parkite Carol Librizzi has recruited her friends who are members of the Park City’s Common Thread and Salt Lake City’s Featherweight sewing circles, to help Megan Jansen, a registered nurse at Salt Lake Regional Hospital, with her organization, Sewing for Life. “I’m in the process of making 80 covers and I’ve already delivered more than 70 to the people who need them,” Librizzi said. “When I’ve been dropping them off, people have been grateful.” Sewing for Life, which was created by Jasen on March 20, has enlisted the help of more than 6,000 seamstresses and seamsters from across the country to create 100% cotton, washable covers that first-responders and healthcare workers can wear over their medical-grade masks. The covers prolong the life and sanitation of the medical masks, much in the same way surgeons and other operating staff cover their scrub hats with medical hats, according to Jansen. “I want to be clear that we’re not trying to replace any type of personal protective equipment,” Jansen said. “We’re not producing masks that will prevent infections. We are complementing what these heroes already have.” Jansen, a former Park City resident who graduated from Ameritech College of Healthcare in Draper, came up with the decision to make these covers after she learned that local law enforcement officers, who usually are the first on any dangerous scene or situation, have resorted to wearing dirty masks. “I asked why, and was told that when thinking about first-responders, the police are usually forgotten,” she said. “I thought we could do better, and decided to start making mask covers.” Around the same time Jansen decided to make her own mask covers, Librizzi’s husband Paul saw a Please see Se Covers, B-8 COURTESY OF CAROL LIBRIZZI These handsewn mask covers are 100% cotton and washable. |