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 ...

Project Linus, a volunteer-run nonprofit that provides handmade security blankets to children in crisis, celebrates its 30th anniversary this Christmas Eve. The date marks three decades since founder ...

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, ...

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.

Comfort and security are coming to seriously ill and traumatized children in Rochester. A new, local chapter of the nonprofit Project Linus has begun producing hand-made blankets "to provide comfort — ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

When Joyce Gentzler told the story, I could tell that it still touched her. The story was told to Joyce by the folks at the Joplin Community Clinic. A young girl was undergoing some fairly extensive ...

BLOOMINGTON — When Mary Balagna heard about the shootings at a school in Connecticut and thought about the children traumatized by the event, she knew just what to do. The vice president of ...