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Comfort Chickens, A Fundraiser for Our Times
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: DECEMBER 7, 2025
PRESS CONTACT: JOHN WALTERS
[email protected]
(603) 496-1280
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A Fundraiser for Our Times:
The Hardwick Gazette Offers Hand-Crafted Comfort Chickens
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HARDWICK – It seems like everyone is fundraising these days. Politicians, parties, charitable causes… they all have their hands out. But one fundraiser is making an offer that stands out from the crowd.
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Starting on Giving Tuesday, the next 10 people to give $500 or more to The Hardwick Gazette will receive a plush, cozy comfort chicken handmade by Gazette staffer Sandra Atkins. It’s the most appropriate gift imaginable for these troubled times. (As of Sunday afternoon, three chickens had been adopted; just 7 more to go!)
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The origin of the comfort chicken, or “emotional support chicken” as some call it, has been traced to a fiber artist at a Los Angeles craft store called The Knitting Tree. As blogger David Friedman wrote, the idea “spread like wildfire through the knitting community… They’re roughly the size of a throw pillow and are stuffed with material to be soft and huggable.”
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Atkins explains how she started making chickens: “A friend of mine made one for her daughter, who got so many comments about it that I decided to try it. I enjoyed it and kept on going. I love color, so my chickens are very colorful.”
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Unless you’re a friend or relative of Atkins, there’s only one way to get one of her comfort chickens: Donate $500 or more to The Hardwick Gazette at https://hardwickgazette.org/donate/.
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AB0UT THE HARDWICK GAZETTE
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The Hardwick Gazette is a weekly newspaper that serves 11 communities in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, including Cabot, Calais, Craftsbury, Greensboro, Plainfield, and Woodbury. The Gazette has served its area for close to 140 years; it was reinvented as a community-governed nonprofit organization in 2024. Donations to The Gazette are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
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For more information, and to contact The Hardwick Gazette visit www.HardwickGazette.org
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