For Dee Nietschke of Lodi, happiness is a warm blanket. In 2019, she established the San Joaquin County branch of Project Linus. Taking its name from the blanket-toting Charles Schultz Peanuts comics ...
Thirty years since the founding of the nationwide initiative Project Linus, the organization’s local chapter continues to provide blankets to area children in need. The initiative, born in Denver, ...
Project Linus provides new, homemade blankets to sick or abused children through its chapters across the country. Saturday, volunteers gathered at the main branch of the St. Louis County Library to ...
Carroll County Project Linus is a nonprofit organization that makes, gathers and donates blankets to facilities that serve children in need such as hospitals, social service organizations, schools, ...
When Ann Strautman learned of the deaths last year of two children who attended Galm Elementary School, she knew what to do. Strautman called a friend, a counselor at the school, and offered to donate ...
Sometimes, a gesture as simple as being wrapped up in a warm hug is all a person needs to get through a rough patch in life. For more than 50,000 San Diego children, that hug has arrived in the form ...
On Feb. 15, University of Maine students celebrated the last day of the annual Winter Carnival by participating in Project Linus’ National Make-A-Blanket Day. Students were provided with materials and ...
Comfort and security are coming to seriously ill and traumatized children in Rochester. A new, local chapter of the nonprofit Project Linus has begun producing hand-made blankets "to provide comfort — ...
Residents in Oakton's Miller Heights neighborhood who made the fleecy no-sew blankets for Project Linus never saw the child press the soft nap of the blanket against her cheeks. Supervisor Dahlia ...
WAYNE TWP. – Snoopy would be proud. People in the area who like to use their talents to create gifts now can make a special gift to help a child who is in a traumatic or scary situation. Charles ...
LEBANON, Pa. (WHTM) — The James Biever Police-Community Alliance (JBPCA) announced that they have been working with local groups in Lebanon to make Linus blankets that will be placed in every police ...