Laura Barnard first got the idea to make mats for the homeless population out of plastic bags from a post she saw on Facebook. She then used YouTube to figure out how to make them. That was a couple ...

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Ellen Valentine of Tyler cuts plastic bags into strips to be made into sleeping mat for the homeless during a mat making workshop held at Southern Oaks Baptist Church in Tyler on Wednesday Jan. 10, ...