PORT ANGELES — Stevens Middle School students have worked after school since January to make blankets for the Project Linus Washington Peninsula Chapter.
The blankets, made under the guidance of adviser Evelyn Ellsworth and volunteer Carol Hughes, will be delivered to Seattle Children’s Hospital by Pat Gracz, Project Linus coordinator for the Peninsula chapter.
Ellsworth oversees the project, which was begun 10 years ago at the school.
The colorful and warm blankets the students make are distributed to seriously ill children.
Additionally, this year’s Port Angeles High School Wellapalooza, held in April, sponsored a Blankets for Linus Club session presented by Ellsworth and high school counselor Cecilia Jacobs.
Eleven blankets were made at the session.
Combined with the Stevens-made blankets, that totaled 51 blankets for Project Linus.
Project Linus Peninsula Chapter volunteers have delivered more than 18,000 blankets to area hospitals since 1997, when Gracz made the first delivery.
More than 5 million blankets have been distributed nationwide by Project Linus chapters.