Quilters volunteer skills to help cancer patients
Mel Neal looks for the most pleasing quilt design. Mel and Max Neal have made more than 800 quilts for Columbia Basin Cancer Foundation patients.
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Mel Neal checks the design of a new quilt. Neal and his wife Max have made more than 800 quilts they donated to the Columbia Basin Cancer Foundation.
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Mel Neal rearranges quilt blocks for the most eye-catching design. Neal and his wife Max have made more than 800 quilts for donation to the Columbia Basin Cancer Foundation.
Cheryl Schweizer/Columbia Basin Herald
Mel Neal stitches together quilt blocks on his 1950 Singer. The vintage machines – the Neals have three of them – are the only kind they use.
Cheryl Schweizer/Columbia Basin Herald
MOSES LAKE — Mel Neal said he was looking for ways to put his considerable skill and experience as a quilter to good use. The Columbia Basin Cancer Foundation came up during a conversation with a friend.
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