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Isabela Biddle, 13, of Hughesville, left, and Leslie Smith of Williamsport used what materials they could find and made masks early in the COVID pandemic when masks were unavailable. Isabela worked from her home and Leslie worked from her studio at the Pajama Factory in Williamsport.
With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic came lingering anxieties and fears about friends, family members and even the possibility of contracting the virus themselves.
Isabela “Izzie” Biddle, Hughesville student, and Leslie Smith, Pajama Factory sewist, made it their mission to make and distribute face masks to not only provide a Center for Disease Control-approved method of safety, but to also ease the anxiety and fear surrounding the virus.