BJ folks never ‘retire’ from good works

In Wednesday’s BJ Community front page is a photo of Beverly Musarra, wife of BJ newsroom retiree Russ Musarra of Streetsboro, making a doll to comfort a bereaved child. Bev is part of

the Lakeside Terrace Cozy Crafters group in Streetsboro that began in 2009.

Dorothy Jacoby started the project that grew from a teddy bear she made from her late husband’s shirt for her grandson and has blossomed into blankets, cancer hats, pillowcases, jewelry and dolls.

They donate most of their items to counseling offices, the Streetsboro Police Department, homeless shelters and hospitals.

They make sanitary napkins, stuffed with mattress pads and covered with flannel, so that they can be washed and reused, for women in Haiti.

Other BJ retirees also do good works, too. 

Mary Ann Roese, who helped the disadvantaged for decades while working for the state of Ohio, in retirement joins husband Don Roese, retired BJ photographer, in going under Akron’s bridges and other “homes” for the homeless, and provide food and replace cardboard boxes with tents.

To read Kim Hone-McMahan’s BJ story about Bev and the Lakeside Terrace Cozy Crafters, click on http://www.ohio.com/news/local/kim-hone-mcmahan-cozy-crafters-create-dolls-with-clothes-of-loved-one-to-help-children-cope-1.504746