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Cranbrook boy, 6, creates blankets for kids

Elias Quick feels everyone deserves a fuzzy blankets, especially at Cranbrook Transition House and Alberta Children’s Hospital
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Elias Quick, with a sample of the fuzzy blankets he is making for kids at the Cranbrook Transition House and Alberta Children’s Hospital. (Barry Coulter photo)

Elias Quick of Cranbrook, six years old has a firm belief that every child should have a fuzzy blanket.

Accordingly, Elias has set out to make fuzzy fleece blankets for kids at the Transition House in Cranbrook, the YWCA Transition Shelter in Calgary, and the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary.

Elias has raised $560 so far, selling baked goods and some of his toys, and is asking for donations to bring as many blankets to Cranbrook and Calgary as possible.

He and his mother buy the fleece fabric, cut them into blankets and so them up. He also makes cards to go with each blanket.

Elias’s mother says the idea and ambition was completely his.

Interesting in helping Elias bring blankets to the kids? Check out his GoFundMe page at www.gofundme.com/blankies.



Barry Coulter

About the Author: Barry Coulter

Barry Coulter had been Editor of the Cranbrook Townsman since 1998, and has been part of all those dynamic changes the newspaper industry has gone through over the past 20 years.
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