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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Project Linus creates sewing blankets for those who need a hug ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Thank you, Woodland, for your support in funding, fabric and yarn for the children of Yolo County and our Blanketeers. Yolo County Chapter Project Linus made/collected 1,814 handmade blankets to ...

Wyatt Park Christian Church members gathered to make fleece blankets for Project Linus on Saturday morning. Project Linus started in 1995 and donates blankets to children in shelters, hospitals, ...

FLORENCE — Eight seamstresses, members of the Temple-Killeen Chapter of Project LINUS, met in Florence last weekend for a blanket-production retreat and finished 71 quilts for the nationwide ...

Linus, the blanket-toting, philosphy-quoting character from the Peanuts comic strip is the inspiration behind Project Linus, an organization providing handmade blankets to seriously ill or traumatized ...