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Yarn Bomb Goes Boom in Legacy Park

Volunteers sewed together comfy fits for three trees in a prospective mini park on La Mesa Boulevard near Allison Avenue and Cypress Street Friday.

More than 60 volunteers from Helix High School, La Mesa Adult Enrichment Center and Carol Fuller's Yarn and Thread Expressions customers helped do the knitting to wrap the trees and effectively drop a yarn bomb with a dozen knitted flowers. 

The yarn bomb and trees will be removed when a fundraising goal is reached, said Michele Greenburg-McClung with the city of La Mesa.

About $90,000 of a $250,000 goal has been raised, she said. 

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