Pinecrest Students Provide Blankets For CASA

Published: November 27, 2003

CUMMING—The Pinecrest Academy fourth-grade girls created 43 blankets as a service project to benefit Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children (CASA). Suzanne Hall, a parent of one of the students, learned of the need through her quilting guild and proposed the project to her daughter’s fourth-grade teachers, Jenny Alldred and Marta Smolynsky. The girls worked on the project after school, directed by Hall and other parents.

The students presented the blankets to Forsyth County Sheriff Paxton and CASA representative Diane Boyington at the school on Nov. 6. These blankets have a special mission. CASA will use these beautiful soft blankets to give abused children a snuggly of their own to hold onto through difficult days. The blankets will also find their way to drug-addicted babies, as well as to police officers to carry with them for child accident victims or children that need to be removed from their homes.

CASA’s mission is to ensure that an abused child living in foster care is placed in a safe and permanent home as quickly as possible. Volunteers work one-on-one with foster children and are advocates for the child in court.

Pinecrest Academy is a independent Catholic school located at 955 Peachtree Pkwy., Cumming. For information, contact Nancy Palmer at (770) 888-4477, ext 243.