Brianna Meeks, a sixth grader from Williamston, likes to knit, dance, play piano, play the flute in her school band and serve on the school drill team. She decided she wanted to add crocheting to her repertoire after finding her mom’s supplies in the closet. “She wanted to learn, so I showed her a simple pattern. She was just a little older than I was when I learned to crochet, and she started immediately to crochet a blanket,” said April Meeks, Brianna’s mother. After a while, making the blanket got a little boring. Brianna said April, an assistant nursing manager in the Palliative Care Unit at ECU Health Medical Center, gave her the idea to switch projects and make prayer cloths for patients and their families in the Palliative Care Unit at ECU Health Medical Center. It was then that Brianna set a goal to make 50 prayer cloths to donate to the unit. Once the prayer cloths were complete, April and Brianna brought them to the Palliative Care Unit on March 20. Thank you to Brianna f...