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 ...

HUDSON VALLEY, NY — 'Tis the season for giving back to your community. There are a number of ways that you and your family can help others through the holidays. Every day through Christmas, Patch will ...

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, ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) -One Eastern Iowa woman is working to make sure kids in the area are warm this winter. Saturday morning was the 12th annual blanket making party at the Salem United Methodist ...

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 ...

Breen, as the newest Project Linus Canada chapter coordinator, is responsible for recruiting volunteers, ensuring a Project ...

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 ...

DECATUR - Smells and sounds most people would not notice can freak out a child with autism. But according to Ashley Whittington of The Autism Place in Normal, this sensory sensitivity also makes them ...

DECATUR — The Project Linus event at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Monday officially began at 9 a.m., but by that time, the gym was already full of people sewing, cutting, ...