A local resident has come up with a unique way to raise money for Ukrainian relief efforts.

Irene Yarema-Whitwell has been decorating cookies using a Ukrainian motif. She did it for her family last year, but after seeing the events unfolding in Ukraine over the last few weeks, she decided to do it again, this year as a fund-raiser.

“I was glued to the TV, watching everything in Ukraine because our family still has relatives in Ukraine. I message with them every couple of days to see how they’re doing,” she said. “It’s consuming my time. I just couldn’t stand that I’ve done nothing and they were busy making those Molotov cocktails, feeding people at the train station. Finding rides for people to get out of the country. I felt useless.”

Yarema-Whitwell has purchased some cookies and, with the help of her great-niece and nephew who were visiting her, they decorated the cookies for Easter.

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