“Thank You” mural starts a movement
What started as a chalked message on a retaining wall, has spread to 3000 yard signs distributed to 34 states, thanking doctors, nurses, janitors, truck drivers and other essential workers. KARE's Boyd Huppert reports.
EDINA, Minn. (NBC News) — What started as a chalked message on Heather Lane’s retaining wall outside of her Edina, Minnesota home has spread to 3000 yard signs distributed to 34 states, thanking doctors, nurses, janitors, truck drivers and other essential workers.
“I hope that as a society we never, ever, forget the day that all these people went to work for us,” she says.
Heather was feeling anxious back in March about the toll being taken by COVID-19.
Heather and her eight-year-old son Alex used colored chalk to write “THANKU” in bold letters, followed by six circular icons representing police officers, firefighters, doctors, nurses, truck drivers and grocery workers.
The response was immediate.
“I think I had the medical circle up first and someone stopped and asked if they could take a picture,” Heather says. “I’m probably in a thousand Instagram photos because people were taking pictures all the time.”
Based on positive feedback to the wall, Heather sampled her friends on interest in yard signs. Her initial order of 200 sold out quickly.
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