During its meeting on Wednesday, the City Council of Cathedral City honored the key leaders of the Coachella Valley Mask Makers Project whose valiant efforts helped protect our frontline health care workers early on during the coronavirus global pandemic. It was the first opportunity for the council to recognize the groups efforts in person since the pandemic began. The honorees were Shelley Blume, Kay Gerhardt, Judi Britt, Conrad Angel Corral, and Actress Lucie Arnaz.
The city council presented them with awards of appreciation as the group in a matter of days recruited approximately 1,400 volunteers and produced in a matter of weeks more than 90,000 medical masks and 20,000 medical gowns for our frontline health care workers at local hospitals, nursing homes, and health clinics.
