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Northern residents embrace plan for unique beaded pin honouring COVID-19 workers
DAWSON CITY, Yukon — A made-in-Yukon initiative to celebrate front-line workers fighting COVID-19 is gaining momentum across the North.
An administrative assistant at a health centre in Dawson City has launched the Fireweed Heroes project.
Kyla Popadynec began making beaded lapel pins for health-care workers, but rapidly expanded the project to cover all front-line staff — from grocery store clerks to truck drivers.
She says several hundred people, including beaders from Alaska and Yellowknife, have volunteered to make the pins.