(La Porte, IN) - A La Porte woman has made close to 10,000 masks since the COVID-19 outbreak started in March.  Patti Pearson has received help from her husband and a handful of other individuals to serve the demand.

Many of the masks have been donated to medical and emergency responders.  Right now, Pierson said she’s working on masks that will be given to teachers at several schools here in La Porte.  She’s also churning out Slicers masks for kids in Pop Warner footbal.

Pierson, who has now made over 9,600 masks, said she’s given away about a one-third of the masks she's made, mosty from faberic and materials she stockpiled in her store.  The remaider of her masks are offered in her children’s clothing store called The Pink Sheep, which has just relocated to a much larger space in the 600 block of Lincolnway in La Porte.