West Swamp Mennonite Church is holding a week-long knotting marathon to create comforters for the Mennonite Central Committee, which sends them to people around the world. Locals are trying to knot more than 200 comforters this week for the Mennonite Central Committee, which is shipping the blankets to earthquake victims in Haiti. This week, West Swamp Mennonite Church in Milford is holding its fifth annual knotting marathon called Why Knot. The all-volunteer event creates comforters for the Mennonite Central Committee, a relief and service agency based in Lancaster County. The MCC distributes these comforters and others it receives to needy people around the world. Church groups knotted comforters for Europeans devastated by World War II, said Lynne Rush, secretary at West Swamp and one of the knotters.

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