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Children's talent shines through This year, send your holiday greetings on cards created especially for the season by Children’s Hospital patients.  Rachel Hendrix and her mom purchase their cards.  Now in its ninth year, the Kids Helping Kids Holiday Card Project will raise funds to support research and programs at the Children’s Hospital. Aiden Maynard with mom, Nicole, displays his artwork.  Each year, the local businesses who sponsor the project select artwork to be included in the pack of cards.  A set of 20 cards and envelopes is $15 and can be purchased at BB&T, MUSC Wellness Center, First Federal of Charleston, local branches of Bank of America, and South Carolina Federal Credit Union. The Kiwanis Clubs of Charleston will also be selling the cards in local Belk department stores on weekends through December. Children's Hospital Director Dr. Lyndon Key celebrates the annual “Kids Helping Kids” Holiday Card Project during a reception Nov. 5. The children, all former patients at MUSC Children's Hospital, created 20 works of art featuring a Christmas theme. Artists pictured are: Daniel Stemke, Sullivan Leamond, Benjamin Hoskins, Erin Kelley, Ashley Cox, Rachel Hendrix, Brandon Peek, Mathew Panther, Emily Gail Lyles, Valerie Paras, Lindsey Laurent, and Aiden Maynard. Also pictured is Linda Gadson, director, John's Island Rural Mission.  Children's Hospital patients whose artwork was selected for the Holiday Card Project are: Lindsey Laurent, a 12-year-old Ewing's Sarcoma PNET patient from Charleston Mathew Panther, a 13-year-old spinal cord fusion patient from Hanahan Sullivan Leamond, a 7-year-old double liver transplant patient from Mount Pleasant Benjamin Hoskins, a 10-year-old pectus repair patient from Baytown, Texas Erin Kelley, a 6-year-old patient with intestinal complications from Indianapolis, Ind. Megan Lewis, a 7-year-old neuro surgery  patient from Charleston Brandon Peek, a 7-year-old cerebral palsey patient from Dorchester Aiden Maynard, a 7-year-old Epispadius patient from Summerville Brittany Campbell, a 10-year-old bone marrow transplant patient from Charleston Daniel Stemke, a 10-year-old liver transplant patient from Isle of Palms Valerie Paras, an 10-year-old cystic fibrosis patient from Surfside Beach Emily Gail Lyles, a 12-year-old achondroplasia patient from Summerville Ashley Cox, an 7-year-old pectus repair patient from Hanahan Chris Banks, a 14-year-old cancer patient from Conway Rachel Hendrix, an 11-year-old AVM patient from Mount Pleasant Tiara Pinckney, a 13-year-old bone cancer patient from Beaufort Miranda Rawson, an 8-year-old heart and liver observation patient from John's Island     2001 Holiday Card Project Sponsors  Alcoa Mt. Holly; AstenJohnson Inc; Bank of America; The Beach Company; Blackbaud; Carolina Services Inc.; CB Richard Ellis/Carmody; Covenant Group Inc.; Cullum Mechanical Construction; Mr. and Mrs. David Gilston; Gamble Givens & Moody LLC; Howe & Wyndham LLP; IVS Video; Johnson Controls Inc.; Tom and Lyn McNally; Robert Bosch Corporation; Santee Cooper; Seaboard & Co.;  SC Stingrays; and William M. Bird & Company Inc.