What a pleasure it was to meet together again with blanketeers who are fully vaccinated, wearing face covers, and feeling safe. We met at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church and spent 3 hours making fringe fleece. Also, people who have been making blankets all month were able to drop by and deliver the projects they have been working on at home all month.
I am again scheduling a blanket making day at OSLC on September 13th, the second Monday of the month – avoiding labor-day as we assume you will all be busy then. You are invited if you are vaccinated. Please join us.
Jackie Cohen is also planning to have a blanket day for South Valley blanketeers on Friday the 27th of July.
TAPS and Snowball Express
You may remember a few years ago that we participated in a program for children of active military who have lost a loved one in the line of duty. As it turned out the expense of shipping blankets to Florida was too much for our budget.
Since that time The Gary Sinise Foundation has extended that project to be The Snowball Express. The problem of shipping was still an issue even though we wanted to participate with the Florida chapter on gathering blankets for kids.
As it turns out, our active blanketeer, Jackie Cohen was flying to Florida this month and volunteered to box up 30 blankets and take them with her on the flight.! Thanks so much Jackie for organizing our participation in this wonderful project for kids.
KIDS CAMP IN TOOELE
This is the third year in a row that we have provide large fleece blankets to the kid’s camp in Tooele. There is no Linus chapter there and we have enough to share again. I cannot post pictures of this event as the children’s privacy is protected. Just know that we provided 80 blankets and the kids event was very successful.
THANK YOU NOTES FROM PARENTS
I so much wish I could share with all of you the touching thank-you messages that I receive from parents of children who receive our blankets. Not room here to post them, and some are quite personal. The message always includes a note that their babies and their children continue to carry and sleep with the security blankets long after the gift is received.
SOLITARY SEWING
During the past two months blanketeers working alone have produced a record number of blankets for us to distribute. For the total of July and August we have distributed 470 blankets to kids in need. Remember we can only distribute what you have contributed, so thanks to all of you who consistently support our effort of blanket hugs for children.
Thank You
Just wanted to sign off by saying thank you to Patsy Bueno, who you all know is our assistant SLC coordinator of our Linus chapter. She continues to do all the same tasks that I do for our chapter.
Sending Thanks and Love to all of you,
Millie
