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RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Volunteers Column: Handbags of Hope Fun photo of group of women volunteers hoping to collect 1,000 gently-used purses so they can fill them with useful items (warm mitts or gloves, tissues, soap, deodorant, etc.) and donate then to organizations that help women in Winnipeg who are facing hardship. Names of women in the photo from back left: Tracey Kleysen (black jacket), Cathy Jowett (Knit jacket), Silke Blaine, Shauna Angers (grey), Karen Burns (black & white) and Sharon Evans (centre red purse). Sharon, 53, and Cathy, 52, are two of the women behind Handbags of Hope with the help of the others. Sharon is the main source in the column. Aaron Epp Volunteers columnist, Winnipeg Free Press Nov 18, 2017