Stevens Middle School students donate 65 Project Linus blankets

Published 1:30 am Sunday, July 28, 2019

Stevens Middle School students donate 65 Project Linus blankets
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Stevens Middle School students donate 65 Project Linus blankets
Standing, from left, are Project Linus advisor Evelyn Ellsworth with club members Allison Pettit, Jordis Vance, Ella Siler, Adisyn Ellis-Bourm and Hayden Webber. Kneeling, from left, are club members Brinnon Fowler, Holli Clark and Mylee Soiseth. Community volunteer Carol Hughes is not pictured. (Patsene Dashiell/Port Angeles School District)

PORT ANGELES — Students from Stevens Middle School’s Project Linus Club donated 65 fleece blankets to representatives of Washington Peninsula Project Linus at a pizza party June 6.

The club meets weekly from January to June to make the blankets.

The hand-made blankets will be distributed to patients at Seattle Children’s Hospital.

One club member, seventh-grader Hayden Webber, knows first-hand how comforting a Project Linus blanket can be from her own stay at the children’s hospital.

“It was so pretty, teal-colored and covered with whales,” Webber said. “It was so soft I wouldn’t let go of it.”

According to a press release, students at Stevens Middle School have been involved with the project for 13 years and have donated almost 500 blankets during that time.

For more information on Project Linus, visit www.wplinus.org.