Binky Patrol delivers 40 homemade blankets to pediatrics/short stayCROWN POINT - The Binky Patrol’s tour of duty brought three of its troops to Saint Anthony Medical Center recently on a mercy mission to warm hospitalized children.
Binky Patrol is a national volunteer organization that formed in 1996 in California. Members create small, homemade blankets, “binkies,’’ that can be sewed, crocheted or quilted and are used to help keep pediatrics patients and other children who receive them, more comfortable.
Three of the 20 members of the Jasper County Binky Patrol, based in Demotte, visited Saint Anthony, with area coordinators April Kortum, Sharon Boonstra and member Lois Bailey donating 40 blankets that were accepted by Lena De Jesus, RN, the hospital’s unit manager of short stay/pediatrics.
“These are just beautiful and I thank you so much. The children will love them,’’ De Jesus told the patrol.
“We do it to serve the Lord,’’ Kortum said, adding the local chapter was formed after “the Lord kept putting it in our heads to do this.’’
The Binky Patrol label, which is sewn onto the blankets, reads: “Binky Patrol – Comfortable Covers – Because I Care.’’
For more information on the Jasper County chapter, send e-mail to dakortum@netnitco.net.
For more information on the national chapter, visit binkypatrol.org.
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