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News This website was updated on JANUARY,30,2012 While we will still continue to accept blankets and deliver them, we will no longer be meeting at the Village Hall monthly.
You can still sew, tie, knit,or crochet blankets to donate and we will still get them out to the children in crises. Call Pauline at (815) 462-1057 if you have finished blankets to donate. Thank you so much for being a part of Project Linus. |
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Project Linus is a national organization comprised of hundreds of local chapters and thousands of volunteers across the United States. Each volunteer and local chapter all work together to help comfort children in crisis.
Pauline Anderson--Will County Coordinator
In the winter of 2003, Pauline Anderson and her family shared the long winter hours making quilts under the mini chapter Alyssa's Hope. They donated them to Project Linus through the Joliet coordinator.
In April 2005, when the coordinator decided to step down, Anderson took over.
She is the mother of three daughters and ten grandchildren.
Anderson is the proud owner of three beautiful chocolate labradors,Taramisu,Good Golly Miss Molly and Cinco de Maya.
She makes her home in New Lenox where she and her husband, lovingly restore their house which was built in the 1890s. With help, she works on Project Linus every day activities picking up blankets, dropping blankets off to the various agencies, making blankets, running Alyssa's Hope, labeling, and checking to make sure all the blankets meet the guidelines set forth by the national chapter. For guidelines, please click on the guidelines link.
For questions or concerns, contact Pauline Anderson by calling (815)462-1057 or emailing her at Alyssashope@sbcglobal.net.
Who is Alyssa?
EIGHT and a half years ago a three-week-old infant related to Anderson's family, needed heart surgery.While in the hospital, Alyssa received a Linus blanket. The blanket was the only item not plugged in, making a beeping sound, or dreadfully antiseptic. It comforted her family members who visited her every day because of its bright colors and hint of fun. It looked like a blanket that would have graced a little girl’s bedroom.
The results of heart surgery.
It is in her name that Alyssa’s Hope dedicates themselves to blessing others and giving them something to hold on to during their time of crisis.
She's stronger than a catfish!
If you have a personal story that explains how Project Linus has touched you personally, please send it to Pauline Anderson at www.alyssashope@sbcglobal.net so that we can share it with others.
