PORT ANGELES — Blankets made by Stevens Middle School students will be delivered to patients at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
The students have worked after school since January under the guidance of advisor Evelyn Ellsworth and volunteer Carol Hughes, making blankets for the Project Linus Washington Peninsula Chapter.
Blankets will be delivered to Children’s Hospital by Phyllis Carey, Project Linus coordinator for the Peninsula Chapter.
Ellsworth oversees the project begun 10 years ago at the school. The colorful and warm blankets the students make are distributed to seriously ill children.
Project Linus Peninsula Chapter volunteers have delivered more than 18,000 blankets to area hospitals since 1997 when the first delivery was made by former Peninsula Chapter coordinator Pat Gracz.
More than 5 million blankets have been distributed nationwide by Project Linus chapters.
