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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WILTON – Using yards of bright colored fleece, contrasting or matching yarns, and a big crochet hook, volunteers with Project Linus make soft cozy blankets for children in need. The group of women who ...

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 ...

Blankets can be a comfort and are even extra special when they are handmade. A group of blanket-makers in New Jersey have been busy. They belong to the Hunterdon/Warren New Jersey chapter of Project ...

Debbie Branning, chapter coordinator of the Wayne County Project Linus nonprofit organization, spoke to members of the 4-H Explorers in the spring. She explained how she donates over 1,000 blankets ...

Nov. 28—In the "Peanuts" franchise,Linus is rarely seen without his comfort and security blanket. That same mindset is what the national non-profit Project Linus hopes to accomplish through its ...

Arden, North Carolina (WLOS) — Project Linus held their ‘Day of Love’ Saturday morning in Arden, making blankets – also referred to as ‘hugs’ – for children in crisis. This was the first time the ...