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Mary Rivas’s third grade class at St Mary School in Garden City displays the blanket they made for "Project Linus," which provides blankets to children in need.
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Using their own hand prints as a pattern, the third graders in Mary Rivas’s class at St. Mary School in Garden City recently made a blanket that will brighten up the life of a needy child.
They made the blanket for "Project Linus," an organization that gives blankets to seriously ill or traumatized children. "Project Linus" was born in Denver in 1995, when a little girl going through intensive chemotherapy treatments for cancer told a reporter that her security blanket helped her get through treatments.
Denver resident Karen Loucks decided to provide homemade blankets to Denver’s Rocky Mountain Children’s Cancer Center, and Project Linus was born.
The project was named after the Linus character in the Peanuts comic strip.
Today, more than 550,000 blankets are delivered worldwide through nearly 300 Project Linus chapters, all run by volunteers. Blankets donated to Project Linus can be of any size, but must be new, handmade, and washable.
For more information, or to obtain a chapter list, call (309) 664-7814, or visit their website at www.projectlinus.org.
"Good job" to Mary Rivas and her third grade class!