We brought $400 of flannel with monkey, rainbows, Disney patterns in colors of the rainbow. Jan, Carol R., Vickie and Edith brought sewing machines. Kathy, Carole P., Joe, and Carol H. brought irons and ironing boards and Stephanie organized all of us.
It was a day well spent and left all of us with more memories to look back and smile at. Jan and the vibrating table. Jo spraying Edith's glasses with water mist. The granddaughters, predictably, forgetting all about their work when a dog got into the building then chasing him exclaiming ahhhah oohhh.
More importantly and of course the reason we were there, was to make a contribution to children near and far. Project Linus started not that far, about 13oo miles from Michigan, in Denver. The following is their story.
On Christmas Eve, 1995, an article titled “Joy to the World” appeared in Parade Magazine. It was written by Pulitzer Prize winning photo-journalist, Eddie Adams. Part of the article featured a petite, downy haired child. She had been going through intensive chemotherapy and stated that her security blanket helped her get through the treatments. After reading the article, Karen Loucks decided to provide homemade security blankets to Denver’s Rocky Mountain Children’s Cancer Center, and Project Linus was born.
