PUTNAM COUNTY, OH (WLIO) - This Jefferson Award winner doesn't have idle hands because she is busy spreading her love for crafts and helping others all around Putnam County. Meet Jefferson Award winner Nancy Kline.
"If you have a hobby, share it. I guess my hobby is crafts," says Nancy Kline.Â
Nancy Kline started sharing her love of crafts around 10 years ago when she was visiting a friend in a nursing home, and they started making crafts during their visits. Soon more people joined in, and now she makes regular visits to Putnam Heritage and Leipsic Meadows to have fun and make friends.
"My favorite thing is that I get to know the neatest people. I have met people from all over the world. I have met even people that have spoke different languages and they're family. So, I guess that I why I enjoy it. But you got to think about their space. Let's make something they can put on their window, or their wall, or give as a gift. That's why, like I said, these aren't kids; these are adults, and they are going to make adult crafts," added Kline.
When her hands are not busy making crafts, Kline uses them to help a variety of organizations, including the Big Brothers, Big Sisters, and Ottawa Kiwanis. She was even a founding member of the Putnam County Task Force for Youth, which puts on the annual Safety City for students in the county.
"Getting involved in organizations was part of my job when I used to work at a paper. You kind of had to stay involved. Some of them I stayed with, Habitat for Humanity. I like history, so I help them with stuff, so I'm on the Historical Society board there. I just like staying busy," says Kline.
"She even went to clown school. To learn how to blow up balloons, and so we would go down, she would drag me along with her sometimes; we would go down to O.I.O., or different hospitals, or mainly nursing homes, and we would blow up all these animal balloons. Just to make people happy, and they don't forget things like that," says Karen Doll, who nominated Nancy Kline for the Jefferson Award.Â
"I just say, whatever you like to do, just share it. You will get it back tenfold," adds Kline.Â
That was Nancy Kline, one of our Jefferson Award winners.Â
