Linus Group provides over 6,000 blankets

  • Janence Chambers and Sharon Day were speakers at a recent Baxter Springs Kiwanis Club. They talked about the Lowell Friends Linus Group and their project of making “heavy blankets” for children.
    Janence Chambers and Sharon Day were speakers at a recent Baxter Springs Kiwanis Club. They talked about the Lowell Friends Linus Group and their project of making “heavy blankets” for children.
    The need locally for children’s weighted blankets is being met by a group of women in Lowell. Known as the Lowell Friends Linus Group, the ladies meet weekly and sew blankets and other items for youngsters. They named their group after the Peanut’s comic strip character “Linus.” The little guy carrying a blanket with his thumb in his mouth. “We called our...

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