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 ...

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 Dec. 24, a nationwide nonprofit called Project Linus, which provides handmade blankets to children in need, celebrated its ...

2:13 ‘We make blankets for anyone who needs a hug’: Moncton volunteers create comfort for children in crisis A group of “blanketeers” who got their name from a well-known Charlie Brown character are ...

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 cozy blanket can mean a lot when times are tough. A new volunteer group based out of Sackville has delivered 12 blankets to the local fire department and RCMP detachment this week. The ...

Project Linus, a volunteer-run nonprofit that provides handmade security blankets to children in crisis, celebrates its 30th ...

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, ...

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 ...

Linus blankets are big hugs for children who need a little extra comfort, says Katy resident Sally Burns, the Houston Project Linus coordinator. "We are touching the lives of so many children in the ...

In less than five years, Project Linus Humboldt has given 2,000 locally made blankets to area children. “Our chapter delivered our 1,000th blanket during the pandemic and the 2,000th blanket during an ...

The volunteers of the Lititz/Lancaster chapter of the nonprofit Project Linus, who call themselves Blanketeers, make blankets, quilts and afghans for children in need — those who are seriously ill, ...