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Hands On Greater Portland

Dayle Gruder | Twice a year the Portland chapter of Binky Patrol parterns with Hands On... | About Us > From the section: News
September, 2013 |

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Aug. 2013- Binky Patrol’s Portland, OR chapter, run by Susan Finch, our founder, partners with  Hands On of Greater Portland twice yearly for Bink-A-Thons.  In March over Martin Luther King weekend, there were around 100 volunteers busily sewing and pinning blankets.   This April, on Comcast Cares Day, they produced 190 binkies together in conjunction with donations of meals from Comcast employee/volunteers and donations of coffee from Starbuck’s.   Some volunteers return every year while others are new to the events. 

The partnership began in 2009 and there have been 8 or 9 big events since.  The blankets go to Northwest Children’s Outreach, a non-profit volunteer run clearing house for donated kids’ clothes, blankets and toys, serving children in the four county metro area around Portland.  Melia Tichenor is the Hands On Volunteer Leader and the Eastside Program Manager. 

If you’d like to know more or donate toys,  clean clothing in good condition or help out at one of the BAT’s you can contact her at (503)200-3370 or  the Binky Patrol Portland Oregon chapter through the chapter list on our home page.  Great work, folks!

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