Providing Warmth and Hope in Every Stitch
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We need ornaments for our entry in the Festival of Trees. You can buy already crocheted from Amazon (we won't tell you didn't make them😜), crochet them yourself, or donate to help us add elements to the tree. We need to have our tree ready to go by December 1st.
All ornaments will be donated to local cancer patients after the event. Please send to Pete's Blankets of Hope, 1413 Hilltop Drive, Monticello, MN 55362
Runs from October 1st-Nov. 18th.
We already started by checking out YouTube! They are FUN and FAST! Make as many as you like! We will also need a tree topper and tree skirt. If you can make either, please contact us. Thank you so much!
There are several ways to get involved with this Drive. You can make a Christmas ornament(s), share our Drive with friends and family and VOTE for our tree at the event! Whatever you choose, know that your contribution will make a difference in the lives of those going through a really rough time in their lives.
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Pete Stachowicz was a fun, adventurous and successful young man. He graduated in 2016 from the University of Minnesota‘s Carlson School of Management majoring in management information systems. He had landed his dream job at Securian Financial in St. Paul. Only one short year later at the age of 24, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor called anaplastic astrocytoma with an incredibly rare tumor pattern called gliomatosis celebri. This pattern affects three of the four lobes in the brain. This cruel cancer took away his ability to speak, walk and control of his dominant right side. While he only lived for eighteen months after he was diagnosed, he never gave up hope and battled this cancer without one complaint. With great difficulty he was able to say to us, and we share this with those battling cancer, “Don’t give up hope!”
The Peter Stachowicz Foundation is a Minnesota-based, 501c3 nonprofit (92-1846374). Our mission is to offer local cancer patients support, comfort and hope by donating homemade, crocheted blankets. Our vision is to positively impact the lives of those battling cancer. We want to inspire and encourage those through the telling of Peter’s journey of Hope.