POTSDAM -- Canton-Potsdam Hospital’s Center for Cancer Care recently received six patient comfort bags filled with socks, a blanket, an adult coloring book, toiletries, and other sundry items from the Northern New York Gives Back group.

“This is our third year of donating comfort bags,” said Heather Sienkiewycz, independent director of Thirty-One Gifts. “We distribute approximately 100 bags a year to patients receiving treatment in the North Country. All in all, we have six projects that each receive 10-20 bags for patients receiving chemo treatments and dialysis, battling cystic fibrosis, as well as those in foster care, serving in the military, and the elderly.”