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Speaker 1: Thanks to a donation from the lynn Ge Employees Good

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Speaker 1: Neighbor Fund, money that comes directly from the paychecks of

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Speaker 1: lynn Ge employees. Sheila Duncan, who's founder of the Kennick Foundation,

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Speaker 1: was recently able to deliver sixty plush dog comfort toys

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Speaker 1: named Trouble to lend police and fire personnel to give

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Speaker 1: to children in stress.

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Speaker 2: Kids pick them up, they had drawn to them like

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Speaker 2: a magnet, and they pick them up and they instantly

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Speaker 2: hug em. It's grown ups too, it's automatic.

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Speaker 1: Over the past decade, thousands of people have found comfort

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Speaker 1: in Trouble, this very huggable toy dog, created by Sheila's

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Speaker 1: twelve year old niece nearly twenty years ago.

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Speaker 2: She wanted to do something to comfort kids going through

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Speaker 2: tough times, and that's exactly what's happening.

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Speaker 1: Carl STEVENSBC Boston's news radio