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 ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. COLLEGE STATION, Texas (FOX44) — Project Linus, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing handmade blankets and quilts to ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — 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, ...

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 ...

It’s a Monday morning at the Bear Canyon Senior Center in Northeast Albuquerque, which means the weekly knit and crochet volunteer group for Project Linus is meeting inside Classroom 5 at the center.

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 ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Friends and family gathered to honor Albuquerque Police Officer Bianca Quintana and her family with a balloon release. The young APD officer leaves behind a husband and two young ...

Members of Project Linus, a nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting critically ill children, donated handmade blankets to the University of Maryland Regional Health Shore’s emergency center in ...

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 ...