Kiwanis club collects supplies for students
Kingston, Canada, Whig-Standard
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It’s big and yellow, but it won’t eat your homework.
For the sixth year in a row, the Kiwanis Club of Kingston's Yellow School Bus program will collect school supplies for elementary and high school students in the greater Kingston area.
From August 1 to September 15, a model yellow school bus will be located at each of the Staples Business Depot stores, at Queen and Bagot streets and in the RioCan Centre on Gardiners Road.
Dwight Neddow, program coordinator, invites people to leave supplies such as notepaper, notebooks, pens, pencils, markers, crayons, scissors, geometry sets, glue, binders, and other school items in the buses.
“The cashiers [at Staples] give a blurb to each of their customers to let them know what it’s about,” he said.
Neddow said the program doesn’t have a direct connection with schools in need, but sorts the collected items and distributes them to various community agencies.
“We arrange through North Kingston community services groups to get these materials distributed,” he said. “They have their outlets and connections with elementary and high schools.”
Neddow said the Kiwanis Club of Kingston has collected more than $20,000 in school supplies for students in need in the project’s six years.
However, Neddow said the need might rise.
“There used to be supplemental cheques given out to low-income families, but when the new child tax credit came in, they melted it all together with the cheques the individuals were getting,” he said.
Posted
Jul 29 2008, 02:03 PM
by
Chris Hayworth