At the Scioto Juvenile Correctional Facility in Delaware County, Clark, 58, teaches weekly sewing classes — the Upper Arlington resident’s latest effort to help kids in a 30-year history of doing so.

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Clark wants her students to feel a sense of accomplishment and see it manifested in a pillow. Her students are to gain confidence — in sewing, sure, but really in anything.

Some of the students attending her voluntary program have an interest in sewing; others, not so much.

“Most of the girls come for her,” said Terrence Lawrence, the facility’s interim recreation administrator. “Her personality draws the girls in.”

In her singsong voice that can break into actual notes, Clark calls her students honey, sweetie and ladies; and seizes most opportunities to say, “You go, girl!”

During a class in June, the first for most of the six in attendance, Clark described Project So Loved — a program she started for which the inmates will sew pillows for hospital patients.

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