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ABOUT PROJECT LINUS: A HUGE THANK YOU to each of our wonderful volunteers! Together, you made 5,008 blankets for Project Linus' Tucson Chapter during 2011.
This was 134 fewer blankets than in 2010, and yet our requests from recipient facilities are increasing. We appreciate each blanket that you have made! Please spread the word to your friends, or better yet, bring a friend to our monthly meeting to learn about Project Linus.
Since the inception of this chapter through December 2011, 36,692 blankets were delivered to children in the Tucson area. When the chapter began in Spring 1999, our goal was to ultimately reach 1,000 children. Instead, look what's happened!!!! With the help of over 300 women, men and children, who regularly make and contribute blankets, Project Linus Tucson has given the gift of a security to many thousands of children.
There are nearly 400 Project Linus chapters covering all 50 states. Together, volunteers in these chapters have given over 4 million security blankets to children!
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION'S MISSION STATEMENT: Project Linus is a volunteer non-profit national organization with a twofold mission.
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION'S HISTORY: Project Linus began in Denver on Christmas Eve 1995 when an article appeared in Parade Magazine entitled, "Joy to the World". Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Eddie Adams, it featured a petite downy-haired little girl who had been undergoing intensive chemotherapy. The article stated that her security blanket helped her get through treatments. Karen Loucks read the article and decided to provide homemade security blankets to Denver's Rocky Mountain Children's Cancer Center. The idea grew, Charles Schultz's family gave permission to use the blanket-toting Linus as the logo, and Project Linus was born. |
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Coordinator:
Rene Lassise 574-2103
Asst. Coord.:
Dale Shoots 742-3801
NW Area:
Vicki Colovito 219-8283
SE Area:
Kate Havens 870-2603
Jan VandenHeuvel 885-3126
SW Area:
Marge Koeller 578-7115
GREEN VALLEY:
Lois Westervelt 399-1411
FALLEN HEROES:
Marge Koeller 578-7115
KIDS HELPING KIDS:
Dale Shoots 742-3801Links Section
PHOTOS:
2011, Sept.
Work Party
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Tucson Chapter Coordinator, Rene Lassise, began her term January 1, 2011. One of her new ideas was for the chapter to extend our monthly morning meetings, a few times a year, to include an afternoon "Work Party". The event in September was the final Work Party for 2011.
After the monthly packaging of blankets for delivery a short business meeting is always held. On the special occasions when a "Work Party" is held, volunteers bring a sack lunch and pitch in to learn new techniques for making blankets. When donations of fabric and yarn have been received they are available, and volunteers can select materials that they'd like to use to make Project Linus blankets.
A fun time was had by all at the September 2011 meeting!!!
First photo group below is of Rene, and tables full of blankets made by volunteers. We typically receive and distribute 300 to 500 blankets each month.
(Please ignore the date on some photos. Sadly, sometimes when you change batteries, the camera's date reverts to some other point in time.)
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Bagging blankets for delivery
Business meeting, and "Show 'n Tell":
The Work Party included Marge, Rene and Jody's demonstrations of some new quilt techniques,
and Connie taught groups of four ladies to knit together on a "Community Quilt".
Now the "work", which was really just "fun", as volunteers selected fabric, batting, yarn and kits from which they would make blankets for Project Linus Tucson.
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Oops! Did we forget lunch?????? Of course not! We were just too busy eating to take many photos!!
WATCH OUR ON-LINE CALENDAR FOR THE DATES OF OUR 2012 WORK PARTIES, AND JOIN US! (Home Page, lefthand column)
A HUGE THANK YOU TO CAROL BEMILLER AND MINDY ZECH FOR TAKING THE PHOTOGRAPHS!!!!
