An Overdue Thank You

Amanda Huffman adjusts the knitted hat for her 8-month-old daughter Bella during a gathering of Mercy House residents, who posed wearing hats knitted by Virginia Smith of the Hampton Roads area. Smith received a group photo as a thank you for her efforts. (Photos by Michael Reilly / DN-R)

Lexy Missal, 4, tries on her knitted hat during a picnic gathering of residents of the Mercy House shelter in Harrisonburg last month.