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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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.

Linus blankets are big hugs for children who need a little extra comfort, says Katy resident Sally Burns, the Houston Project Linus coordinator. "We are touching the lives of so many children in the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nov. 28—In the "Peanuts" franchise,Linus is rarely seen without his comfort and security blanket. That same mindset is what the ...

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 ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - A non-profit that helps families in need is asking for help. Omaha Project Linus provides homemade blankets for children who are ill or in need throughout the metro. However, ...