Project Warmth ‘Blanket Ladies’ Needs Your Help
The women who participate in the North Shore Senior Center program crochet blankets for chemotherapy patients; the group is working to raise funds by June 30 to keep a matching donor grant.
A group of North Shore women who crochet blankets for chemotherapy patients have two weeks to match a $5,000 grant to help continue to fund the ‘Project Warmth’ program. The grant, given by an anonymous donor, must be matched in order for the program to receive the funds. The "Blanket Ladies" initiative was started three years ago by former Wilmette resident Ruth Silverman. “Ruth was the guiding force who gathered steam to grow this program, she herself was a cancer survivor,” said Kathleen Geraghty, senior communications specialist at the North Shore Senior Center. Geraghty said the blankets are given to people undergoing chemotherapy because one of the side-effects is that patients often feel cold while they are being treated. “The …
