Students Deliver Blankets to Cancer Patients
Students at Ocean Springs Middle School brightened up a rainy day at Singing River Hospital this morning after delivering over 100 handmade blankets to cancer patients.
Cancer patients at Singing River Hospital were surprised and thrilled to see students at Ocean Springs Middle School personally deliver handmade blankets to them, made for warming their bodies but in return, warmed their hearts. “It’s a wonderful thing, today was going to be a bad day and today is better now, thank you,” said Chuck Courtney "Yes, I feel blessed that you’re all thinking of us,” said Patty Courtney.
The student council made over 100 blankets in just two weeks, with a plethora of different colors, patterns and styles but all made with love. Seventh grader Caroline Lapointe said, “I hope that whenever they use the blankets they see that people still care about them no matter what they’re going through.”
Students started donating fabric back in September. One side was patterned and the other side was solid and to make the full blanket, they connected the two by tying knots in them and then had them monogrammed at Serendipity, all for free.
OSMS teacher and student council advisor David Lapointe said, “We want all of our students to know that they should support people from all walks of life. To come out here to this center where some people may feel like other people aren’t thinking about them all the time, to know that they’re loved and they’re cared for and that we’re thinking about them.”
The students and advisors wanted to brighten the spirits of the patients at the hospital but doing the good deed made the kids feel special as well. Seventh grader Maura Kaye Hubbard said, “It makes me feel really warm inside. It makes me feel really good.”
Cancer patients at Singing River Hospital were surprised and thrilled to see students at Ocean Springs Middle School personally deliver handmade blankets to them, made for warming their bodies but in return, warmed their hearts. “It’s a wonderful thing, today was going to be a bad day and today is better now, thank you,” said Chuck Courtney "Yes, I feel blessed that you’re all thinking of us,” said Patty Courtney.
The student council made over 100 blankets in just two weeks, with a plethora of different colors, patterns and styles but all made with love. Seventh grader Caroline Lapointe said, “I hope that whenever they use the blankets they see that people still care about them no matter what they’re going through.”
Students started donating fabric back in September. One side was patterned and the other side was solid and to make the full blanket, they connected the two by tying knots in them and then had them monogrammed at Serendipity, all for free.
OSMS teacher and student council advisor David Lapointe said, “We want all of our students to know that they should support people from all walks of life. To come out here to this center where some people may feel like other people aren’t thinking about them all the time, to know that they’re loved and they’re cared for and that we’re thinking about them.”
The students and advisors wanted to brighten the spirits of the patients at the hospital but doing the good deed made the kids feel special as well. Seventh grader Maura Kaye Hubbard said, “It makes me feel really warm inside. It makes me feel really good.”
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