The members of the Lake Tahoe Chapter are actively supporting veterans at local medical facilities by sewing handmade quilted wheelchair and walker bags. Members have worked together in groups and individually to cut material, assemble sewing kits and sew bags. To date, they have sewn and donated fifteen bags to the Sacramento VA Medical Center (located on the former Mather Air Force Base) in Rancho Cordova and ten bags to the veterans at the Barton Memorial Skilled Nursing Facility in South Lake Tahoe.

This is an ongoing Service to America project and with the current “shelter in place”, members are continuing to sew and have completed an additional twenty-four bags. The chapter hopes to donate these bags as soon as the “shelter in place” ban has been lifted, bringing their total wheelchair/walker bag donations to forty-nine!