8/7/14 - Some events will be held this weekend as part of a larger campaign to collect school supplies and backpacks for local families and students in need. The Livingston Educational Service Agencyâs Annual Backpacks for Kids campaign is getting into the final weeks, with the distribution event set for Thursday, August 21st. LESA and numerous community partners help provide backpacks and basic school supplies to students in preschool through 12th grade, whose families may be experiencing financial difficulties. Organizers are hoping families will pick up an extra set of supplies or a backpack when out shopping to donate and give the campaign a boost. Great Start Livingston Coordinator Robin Schutz tells WHMI there will be a couple of opportunities to do this weekend. A Stuff the Bus event will be held at the Howell Wal-Mart this Friday from 10am until 2pm as well as a while a separate fundraiser at the Five Below store in the Green Oak Village Place Mall, in which 10% of dollars spent will be donated to the Backpacks for Kids program for supplies. A flyer for the Five Below fundraiser is available on the LESA website, as well as a wish list of supplies being collected and additional sites that are serving as drop-off sites this summer. A link is posted below. (JM)
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