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SPRINGFIELD — A local organization with the purpose of helping the homeless and needy will hang, for the taking, scarves, gloves and socks on the fence at the Old State Capitol from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 2.

Gailyn Draper and her husband, Carl Draper, are leading the effort Scarves for Springfield in which anyone in need of the items may take them for free from the fence at the downtown historic site.

Gailyn got the idea for giving away the accessories through a Facebook post of an Ohio woman.

"I was going through Facebook and saw a post by a woman who started this in Ohio," she said. "We're just two individuals who decided to be a part of this. There's people all over the states and in Canada who saw her post and have decided to do the same thing."

Scarves for Springfield's goal is to hang 100 scarves.

"I think we'll make that for the first year, and that was hardly with any publicity or anything," Gailyn said. "We've gotten scarves from people in Illinois and in Florida and in Arizona. They saw my Facebook page, so they sent some to us. ...