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As a child, I wasn’t big on volunteering my time. I didn’t want to spend my Saturday mornings collecting trash on the highway or painting over graffiti.

However, if my teachers would have come up with something like Merced’s Farmdale Elementary School did, I might have thought twice about helping out for a good cause.

A few weeks ago, Farmdale teacher Jamie Hillhouse said she heard that Project Linus was in need of blankets for ill and traumatized children. After speaking with a few teachers and school officials, Hillhouse decided Farmdale’s students could help by making blankets themselves.