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March 10, 2008 Charitable efforts tie UWGB students together Hospitalized kids will receive blankets made at Project Linus event By Mike Hoeft
The student organization, the Newman Catholic Student Community, hosted a night of blanket-making Sunday at the Ecumenical Center at UW-Green Bay. About a dozen students turned out. The goal was to make blankets for hospitalized children in the Green Bay area through Project Linus.
The blankets "make the kids feel more at home in a stuffy hospital," said Mary Frank, an organizer of the student group. She heard about the idea while working at a sewing store in her hometown of Beaver Dam.
"One Christmas, my grandma and I made 20 of them," she said. "They're easy to make."
Volunteers were urged to bring their own scissors and two yards of fleece. Donations of supplies also were welcome.
Craft knowledge was not necessary to make the cut-and-tie blankets of double-layered fleece. The blankets will be distributed to seriously ill or traumatized children at local hospitals.
The campus group has done other community service projects this year, including making cookies for the elderly, as well as making Valentine's Day cards for nursing home residents and Christmas cards for soldiers overseas.
Service projects help develop one's faith, said UW-Green Bay student Phillip Block.
"It brings people together," he said.
The national Project Linus is named for the "Peanuts" cartoon character who was inseparable from his blanket.
More than 2.2 million blankets have been distributed to children nationwide since 1995.
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