Hello all! As some of you may know, our beloved seamstress Colleen (The Green Darner Repair) suffered from a serious cardiac episode (cardiac arrest) during her annual Hardly/ Strickly/ Vintage yard sale at her home in Bozeman on Saturday, September 14th. Her heart stopped for just over eight minutes before she finally opened her eyes after being revived with multiple CPR attempts and an AED. Colleen was immediately taken to Bozeman Deaconess where she spent the night. Sunday afternoon she was life-flighted to Missoula and checked into St. Patrick’s hospital where she went into surgery and had a defibrillator and pacemaker put in. Colleen is now home and adjusting to her new situation while being nursed back to health by her cat William! With that being said, she needs our help. Colleen is self-employed and therefore does not have company insurance or adequate personal insurance to cover the costs of her ambulance ride, hospital stays, procedure, life flight to Missoula, and all of the income she has lost from being unable to work. She will likely have multiple upcoming testing dates at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, the best cardiology center in the country. Without Colleen, Sitka gear as a whole would be unable to function to its full potential. She has dealt with almost all in-house repairs we’ve received, with her own two hands for ten years straight. Mind you, that is a LOT of repairs. We have already seen the effects of her absence in our workplace and we are eager to get her back on her feet. Not only has she made a huge difference for our brand, but she has also heavily impacted the Bozeman community since her move here in 2004. Always giving back and making the world a better place one article of clothing at a time. Please help us get our kind, caring, supportive, and enthusiastic magician of a seamstress back to where she deserves to be.

If you know Colleen, you know she'd give you the shirt off her back and repair yours! Thank you all so much, from her Bozeman community friends and family to her friends and family at Sitka Gear Bozeman!