Happy Spring to All Our Project Linus Friends,

We have exciting upcoming spring and summer events. (Complete list at the bottom of this newsletter) Our first big event besides our monthly meeting is:

ANNUAL VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION DAY

Please except this invitation to our Get-together

Saturday, April 16, 2011

At:Yaple’s Sewing Center

26th & Liberty St.

Erie PA
Time: 10 am -- 2 pm

Demonstrations, Door Prizes & Drawings, Free stuff table, and Refreshments

Come, join the fun and meet other BLANKETEERS and my assistants and myself.

Interested persons always welcome

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Our Second BIG event is BLANKETEER ACTIVITY DAY

Saturday, May 7, 2011

At: HAMPTON INN

8050 OLD OLIVER RD.

Erie,PA

Time: 9:00 am -- 2:00 pm

• Come and work on your project with us


• Bring your unfinished project or start a new one


• Bring your sewing, crocheting or knitting projects


• We will also have no-sew fleece to cut and tie or crochet around


• We will have projects you can do if you don’t have one started: sew on labels, cut muslin, trace squares, and/or make quilt tops


• Bring your sewing machine, cutting board/cutter, craft supplies, thread, scissors -- whatever

Come visit and enjoy the day

Snacks and beverages provided

THIS WILL BE A FUN DAY

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Special event: Blankets for Children in Japan

Project Linus Headquarters has informed us they are trying to work out details to send blankets to Japan.

If you are thinking of how you can help and would like to help the children in Japan, please think of making a single layer no-sew fleece blanket for Project Linus to send.

I will send out more information as it becomes more available.

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SUMMER 2011 SCHEDULE

(Schedule so far for our upcoming events)

Please mark your calendar and plan to attend. Our community events are our biggest resources for letting everyone know about our needs. You don’t have to commit large chunks of time, just come for a bit and help out and let someone else take a break.

Also, participation can be a wonderful service project for your child’s service project hours, your club, group or church to get involved with.

Any questions please call Tena

SPRING AND SUMMER UPCOMING EVENTS:

APRIL:

11th - Monthly Meeting @ Yaple’s 26th & Liberty, 9:00 – 11:00

16th - Appreciation Day @ Yaple’s 26th & Liberty, 10:00- 2:00

MAY:

7th - Blanketeer Activity Day, Hampton Inn, 8050 Old Oliver Rd., 9:00- 2:00

9th - Monthly Meeting @ Yaple’s 26th & Liberty, 9:00- 11:00

JUNE:

13th - Monthly Meeting @ Yaple’s 26th & Liberty, 9:00- 11:00

JULY:

11th – Monthly Meeting @ Yaple’s 26th & Liberty, 9:00- 11:00

27th – Senior Day at Erie Zoo, 10:00- 2:00

AUGUST:

8th – Monthly Meeting @ Yaple’s 26th & Liberty, 9:00- 11:00

20-22nd - Celebrate Erie, 12:00- 8:00

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National Blanket Numbers

Nationally to date Project Linus has comforted 3,706,880 children with blankets throughout our 397 chapters. For more national information visit: www.projectlinus.org

Thank you for your continued support of our local chapter of Project Linus. I look forward to seeing you at our events. Please give me a call if you have any questions, comments or concerns.

Tena Pomeroy

Tena Pomeroy

NWPA Project Linus Chapter Coordinator

814-756-5662

nwpa@projectlinus.org

www.projectlinus.org

Linus Hugs 2010 1St Quarter Newsletter

Linus ♥ Hugs

2010 1^st Quarter Newsletter

Hello Friends,

This year got off to an exciting start.

Disney encourages volunteering.

Project Linus partnered with Disney in their Give A Day Get A Day free pass giveaway. Disney was giving away 1,000,000 one day passes to people who gave a day of volunteering. I don’t think anyone involved expected the overwhelming response. In about ten weeks Disney succeeded in meeting their goal.

Our chapter, along with around 85 other chapters, participated and was overwhelmed with the response. Final numbers are not yet available. I would like to say THANK YOU to all my support assistants who helped with this overwhelming project. And THANK YOU to all the blankets makers who participated.

Blanket needs:

We have a great need for preemie and baby size blankets. 40”X40” is a guideline for size.

Spring Favor:

Are you ready to do some spring cleaning? Don’t forget your crafts. We are in need of cotton material, fleece or flannel, yarn (not wool or wool blends), batting. We really would appreciate your thinking of us when you de-stash your crafts.

Upcoming Events:

April 12^th – Monday - We have a special speaker

Emily Hirsch, RNC, BSN Unit Manager, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit from Hamot Hospital. Emily will be speaking about the NICU and how our blankets are used with the infants and about the new infant hospital that they are opening in 2011

When: Monday April 12, 2010

Where: Yaples Sewing Center, Erie (26^th St & Liberty St)

Time: 9am to noon

Upstairs classroom

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO OUR ANNUAL BLANKETEER APPRECIATION DAY GET TOGETHER

May 15^th Blanketeer Application Day Get Together

Come join the fun! We will have hourly drawings, demonstrations and lots of free stuff along with refreshments.

When: Saturday May 15, 2010

Where: Yaples Sewing Center, Erie (26^th St & Liberty St)

Time: 10am to 2pm

Upstairs classroom

Regular Monthly meetings:

2^nd Monday of every month (weather permitting)

Where: Yaples Sewing Center, Erie (26^th St & Liberty St)

Time: 9am to noon

Upstairs classroom

April 12^th

May 10^th

June 14^th

July 12^th

What we do: We sew the “LINUS” label onto each blanket, inspect them for any hazards, sort by size and prepare blankets for delivery, go through material and yarn donations, plan upcoming events, write thank you notes, BUT mostly we have a good time getting to know each other.

Upcoming Summer Events:

We are off to a good start with our preparation for our summer community events. Thanks to Disney we had a material cutting party in February and March during our monthly meetings. Four bolts of muslin were cut for our “Kids Helping Kids” blocks. My goal was to take some of the burden of this time consuming activity off the shoulders of our regular meeting attendees. We still have at least one more bolt to cut if you would like to come and help.

The next step is tracing pictures onto these blocks. We provide the pictures and tracing markers. If you would like to help, call myself or JoAnn to make arrangements to pick up a pack to trace.

Put these date on your calendar:

Plan to attend or volunteer to help for an hour or so

Senior Day at the Zoo: Wednesday July 28

Celebrate Erie Days: Friday August 20^th, Sat August 21sy, Sunday August 22^nd.

End of Year Report:

2009 Totals of Blankets Delivered:

National total: 3,011,944

NWPA total: 2,296

NWPA total number of blankets delivered since 1998:15,903

I hope you all know how very much I appreciate every single one of you, your support of our chapter and help in keeping it going.

LINUS HUGS TO ALL OF YOU,

Tena

Tena Pomeroy
NWPA Project Linus Chapter Coordinator
814-756-5662
nwpa@projectlinus.org
www.projectlinus.or