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2017-08-16 / Local
Local groups collecting food, supplies for back-to-school drive
BELLOWS FALLS — From Aug. 18 to 31, the Our Place Drop-In Center in Bellows Falls and the Springfield Family Center will be participating in the Back to School Food and Supplies Drive ahead of the new school year.
As part of the Vermont Foodbank’s Healthy Harvest Network, a partnership of southern Vermont food shelves and organizations concerned with food insecurity, access to healthy local food, and community education, the drive will focus on the collection of healthy snack items and school supplies.
Requested food items include tuna fish, peanut butter, cheese and crackers, raisins, applesauce, fruit or pudding cups, and non-sugary cereals. School supplies suggestions include No. 2 pencils, pens, markers, crayons, colored pencils, zipper pencil cases, folders, lined, construction, and plain paper, composition notebooks, and one-inch binders.
“With your help we can provide some assistance to families at a time when their budgets are stretched thin to buy clothing, shoes, backpacks and school supplies for their children,” said Lisa Pitcher, executive director of Our Place Drop-In Center.
According to Our Place Drop-In Center, more than 17,000 children in Vermont live in households that are food insecure, or lacking in access to enough food to fully meet basic needs at all times due to a lack of financial resources, at some point during the year.
Our Place Drop-In Center is located at 6 Island St. in Bellows Falls, while the Springfield Family Center is located at 365 Summer St. in Springfield, Vermont.
We are paying almost 24,000 per kid and that doesn't include a pencil?
ReplyDeleteYup, we can't dump enough on our schools! As Will Rogers put it, "Schools today aren't as good as they used to be-- and they never were." I suppose when we don't have a puppy to kick or a woman to slap around, we can at least be satisfied with having a public school system. And then, when we're really grouchy, we'll insist all our taxpayer dollars go to some neoliberal group like Democrats for Educational Reform or Teach for America, whose primary focus is responsibility to the investors. Sure, they'll provide pencils for the kids, at the same rate their defense contractor colleagues charge us for the gas the military uses in Afghanistan-- $14 a gallon. I imagine the pencils will cost about $2 apiece.
ReplyDeletePeasants are people who let other people push their kids into the race to the bottom. Are
Springdfielders peasants?
you have a typo chuck, you lost your focus.
ReplyDeleteI always lose my focus when I'm drunk.
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