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Project LinuFort Wayne / Northeast Indiana Chapter |
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Blanket Info * Drop off sites * Our Workshop * Kids Helping Kids * Project Linus National Web Site
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Project LinuFort Wayne / Northeast Indiana Chapter |
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It's within your power to make a difference. |
Our workshop is located in the Parsonage of the Salem United Church of Christ, 2401 Lake Avenue. The church is located at the corner of Lake Avenue and Carew Street and the parsonage sits at the west end of the church parking lot. We have been very fortunate to have this home donated for our use in making and storing blankets for our community. The rent is donated, but we are asked to pay the utilities. Since we are volunteers and non-profit, we have not been able to contribute to the utilities. If you are interested in helping with that expense, please contact Peggy Albertson, Chapter Coordinator at: (260) 749-6595.There is limited parking at the door of the house so we ask that unless you are loading or unloading your car, or cannot walk from the parking lot, that you please park at the edge of the church parking lot.
Workshop hours: 11:00 - 4:00 on Wednesdays
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We thank the Salem United Church of Christ
on Lake Ave. for the use of the house.On Wednesdays, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., we meet at the workshop to count, inspect, repair, label, sort, categorize and prepare blankets to be delivered to the many facilities in our community. Please feel free to visit us at any time. Stop in and we will have plenty for you to do. Stay an hour, stay all day - but bring your lunch! We have all the comforts of home: refrigerator, microwave, sergers, sewing machines and cutting tables. Supplies for sewing, knitting, crocheting and quilting. You don't have to be an expert. Anyone can help and all "blanketeers" are willing to help or teach you new skills.
Blankets are getting bagged and ready to deliver to one of our many facilities.
The Front of the house is what you see from the road, but we enter in the rear.
Most of our facilities require that each blanket be wrapped individually.
I want to give a HUGE thank you to all who worked so hard to make this move possible and to get the house in shape. Pat Hudson spent endless hours cleaning and organizing the cleaning crew. The stove top was horribly dirty and unsafe so Dick Schaaf bought and installed a brand new one. He has also spent endless hours doing the odds and ends jobs that needed to be done. True Colors Flooring donated and installed new carpet. The fire department donated smoke alarms and they were installed by Don Guiff. Don also sprayed the interior and exterior of the house for any unwelcome critters. To all those who helped with the cleaning and preparation of the house: Pat Hudson, Pat and Don Guiff, Anne Moll, Betsy Gemmer, Joyce Pickett, Betty Somers, Evie Wehrly, Toni Kring, Linda Balthaser, Barb Isenbarger; a huge THANK YOU!. Thank you to the moving crew for your muscles, trucks and vans: Steve Albertson, Dan Christlieb, Doug Breon, Anne and Roger Moll, Betty Somers, Evie Wehrly, Kathy and Jeff Calder. If I missed anyone, I sincerely apologize, you are all so appreciated!
Lots of work goes into the preparation of blankets before they are sent out. Here, blankets are waiting to either be counted, inspected or to have the label sewn on.
Donated yarn, quilting machine and frame are all available at the Project Linus house to work on blankets.
Several donated sewing machines are set up and ready to be used to sew on labels.
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PROJECT
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