Project Linus Volunteers Wrap Kitsap Kids in Comfort

[The Straight Story]

BREMERTON — Imagine the pounding heart of a young child, hospitalized and faced with the scary-looking equipment, pain and discomfort of cancer treatments.

Think, for a moment, of the traumatized children and teens who find themselves in a homeless shelter or a foster home — no longer in harm’s way, but faced with unfamiliar surroundings and an unknown future.

Those children are the inspiration for volunteers in Kitsap County who make and donate blankets to Project Linus.

“Any time I make a quilt I think about the child that might be getting it,” said Peggy Henning of Port Orchard. Henning was one of about a dozen volunteers who spent an autumn Sunday afternoon at a Project Linus “Blanket Bee.”

Project Linus is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization with more than 400 chapters throughout the country. It was founded in 1995 by a Denver woman who was inspired to make blankets for her local children’s cancer center. The group was named after the blanket-toting character from the Peanuts comic strip.

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