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Aurora University students craft handmade blankets for kids

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Natalie Jansen and Brooke Spencer, both seniors at Aurora University, help make blankets Thursday for children in need.

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Alecia Spangler, president of the Student Athletic Training Organization at Aurora University, and Nicki Pieart, an adviser with the university's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, fold a finished blanket Thursday to be given to a needy child through Project Linus. "It's really great for the students to see a charity project that extends for a period of time," Pieart said about the blanket-tying event, now in its 11th year. "It gets the organization and the students excited."

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Caitlin Phillips, Dani Hoag and Brittany Boulanger, all juniors at Aurora University, help make fleece blankets for needy children on Thursday.

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Aurora University students and employees came together Thursday for the 11th year of a project meant to provide warmth, security and comfort — by way of blankets — to children in hospitals and homeless shelters. During the annual Blanket Lunch Hour, volunteer “blanketeers” cut and tied fleece pieces into 54-inch square blankets to be donated to the Carol Stream Chapter of Project Linus, a Bloomington-based nonprofit.