AUBURN-Facemasks are in high demand to help protect from COVID-19, and the CDC has recommended that individuals not in critical healthcare roles, wear cloth masks.

Needles I Upholstery in Auburn is doing their part in trying to fill the demand for the facemasks. Needles I Upholstery Seamstress Lindsey Hager explains she started making masks for her family’s safety, and encourages others to make them as well.

Hager: “I wanted my family to be safe, so I made a bunch for my family and then everybody saw them and they wanted them. I had a bunch of people come in wanting the pattern for masks, and so there’s a lot of people out there making these masks as well. Not just me, but if people know how to sew they need to try and help.”

Hager states she just enjoys helping, and the elderly community has been a focus for her.

Hager: “Then there are the older people that don’t know how to sew, they don’t want to get out of their houses, so I help. I have a big heart; I can’t say no, it’s hard to say no for me”.

Marcus Lind