Students receive school supplies, backpacks as part of community program
More than 600 backpacks are being distributed to Snohomish School District students thanks to the Snohomish Community Food Bank’s “School Supplies in a Backpack Program.”
The "School Supplies in a Backpack Program" provides school supplies for students enrolled in grades K-8 who cannot afford them. As of Wednesday, Sept. 8, 501 students had already received their supply-stuffed backpacks. Another 38 students received only school supplies as they already had backpacks they could use. Within the first weeks of school, the Food Bank expects to distribute a total of about 620 supply-stuffed backpacks.
Sue Koch, Little Cedars 4th grade teacher and long-time Food Bank volunteer, Sue Sullivan, president of the School Supplies in a Backpack Committee, Kandace Harvey, president of the Snohomish Community Food Bank Board of Directors, and Elizabeth Grant, Snohomish Community Food Bank Executive Director, were honored for their dedication to the annual program and District students at the Wednesday, Sept. 8, Snohomish School District Board of Directors Meeting.
In addition to the "School Supplies in a Backpack Program," 50 disadvantaged Snohomish High School and Glacier Peak High School students received supply-stuffed backpacks thanks to the efforts of Scott Wilson, Little Cedars Elementary PE teacher. Scott worked with Gold Creek Community Church to arrange the donation of 50 supply-stuffed backpacks for our needy high school students.
Inspired by organizers Doris Wentworth and Daryl Bertholet, "School Supplies in a Backpack Program" continues as a partnership between the Snohomish School District and the Snohomish Community Food Bank. It has been nicknamed the “The D & D Remembrance Backpack Program.”
Cash donations to this program may be sent to SCFB - Backpack Program, P.O. Box 1364, Snohomish, WA 98291-1364.