Linda Garbe is collecting cards for a Missing Valentine's project. (Photo by Eric Stock/WJBC)
By Eric Stock
BLOOMINGTON – If the Valentine's Day card you were hoping for never arrives, why not make one yourself? That's the inspiration behind a Towanda woman's effort.
Linda Garbe came up with the Missing Valentines project when thinking about cards she wish she had sent and received.
"(It's) to encourage people to think about people who made a different in your life, places you love and things you have done," Garbe said.
Garbe said the Missing Valentines project is for cards of all types.
"It's all the way from the funny to the serious," Garbe said. "I wish I could still get Valentine's from some of my family members who are no longer here."
Garbe is compiling the cards, which can be in almost any form, and will include them on www.MissingValentines.com. There are also plans for a book collection, possibly even a play or an art exhibit. They can be anonymous.
Printed invitations available at these libraries: Normal, Carlock, Chatsworth, Chenoa, Dominy in Fairbury, El Paso, Eureka, Gridley, Filger in Minonk, Forrest, Hudson, Lexington, Martin in Colfax, Odell, Pontiac, Prairie Creek in Dwight and Towanda.
Garbe will be holding two workshops on the program. The first will be on Tuesday at 5 p.m. at the Towanda District Library, 301 S. Taylor St. The second will be on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. at the Eureka Public Library, 202 S. Main St.
Cards can be sent to P.O. Box 284, Towanda, 61776.
Eric Stock can be reached at [email protected].
