When App State cross country runner Allison Calek was forced to stay at home in Illinois after spring break, she found herself with more free time than she was used to. She wanted to find a way to help out during the pandemic, but she wasn’t sure how.
“I was just kind of sitting around and not really doing much of anything, except reminiscing on my freshman year,” Calek said. “I was always really busy with school and athletics and all that stuff, so then when I got here, I just had nothing to do except school.”
One day, Calek and her mom, Laura Duffy, saw an email from a nearby fabric store with directions on how to make simple masks out of cotton, interface and elastic.