Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, welcome, welcome Welcomedia's time
Speaker 1: now for our community connection. Right here on K one,
Speaker 1: the one you trust, the Yellow Brigade is in here
Speaker 1: with pack the backpacks we have w andwie. How are
Speaker 1: we doing? W Andwi?
Speaker 2: We're doing great?
Speaker 1: Well? Super what we got cooking? I know school is
Speaker 1: just around the corner. It seems like they just got
Speaker 1: out it does it.
Speaker 3: Very much feels like.
Speaker 2: So we're almost done with taking applications, almost almost.
Speaker 1: Because I remember when we kicked that off a few weeks.
Speaker 2: Ago, yes week. Tuesday is the final day. Next Tuesday,
Speaker 2: the fifteenth is the final day for applications. We have
Speaker 2: them online at our website www. Not packdbackpacks dot org.
Speaker 2: Organ or Today we will be at agape Mission from
Speaker 2: eleven to one thirty if you want to come and
Speaker 2: fill out your application in person.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: And then next Monday we'll be at Mary Martha Outreach
Speaker 2: from nine to eleven and those will be your last
Speaker 2: two chances for and concern. We're also there from on
Speaker 2: Monday from eleven to one, so three more chances to
Speaker 2: do it in person and just a few more days
Speaker 2: to do it online.
Speaker 1: My goodness, sakes, and what are we up to? Just
Speaker 1: about three thousand kids?
Speaker 3: We actually have two one hundred okay after now.
Speaker 1: Okay, wow, okay, that's amazing. And this is all of
Speaker 1: Washington County. This just isn't.
Speaker 2: Bartlesbook Gres that is correct, all right.
Speaker 1: So we got Dewey, we got Caney Valley, we got
Speaker 1: oh wow.
Speaker 2: We got Panpan Yeah.
Speaker 1: Wow, my goodness, sakes. Now the shopping has been taking place,
Speaker 1: and it started to taking place the day after they.
Speaker 2: Got out of school, well, the day after we stopped
Speaker 2: packing last year.
Speaker 1: Oh, it is year round. So what's it like being
Speaker 1: a bargain hunter? Extraordinary?
Speaker 3: Excellent question.
Speaker 4: We depend a lot on each other, telling each other
Speaker 4: what deals there are and where we can go and
Speaker 4: what we can get.
Speaker 3: Some places like Staples have a limit of like thirty
Speaker 3: of each item that a single person.
Speaker 4: Can get, So we'll get what we can and then
Speaker 4: let everybody else know.
Speaker 1: Wow. We now do you have your your crew set
Speaker 1: for the assembly line?
Speaker 2: We are working on that. Also on the website and
Speaker 2: our Facebook page, we have a link to sign up genius,
Speaker 2: where we are going to be getting all the extra
Speaker 2: volunteers we need for the final week.
Speaker 1: My goodness, this is like a well oiled machine. I understand.
Speaker 1: I'm not seeing it in person. I got to do
Speaker 1: that someday, but I understand that every time you get
Speaker 1: new folks in they adapt to it pretty quickly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we have a training so when they come in,
Speaker 4: we've show them what they're doing, and then trial by
Speaker 4: fire we send them out there. And yeah, it's very
Speaker 4: well structured, so there's not a whole lot of opportunity.
Speaker 3: To fail as long as they follow instructions.
Speaker 1: That's what I've been told since the get go right.
Speaker 2: And the great thing about this opportunity for volunteering is
Speaker 2: that families are welcome. The children love to do the
Speaker 2: backpacks they do and they get to go through the
Speaker 2: line just like everybody else and get to pack one
Speaker 2: or as many as they want while they're there. So
Speaker 2: it's we have a lot of families from around the area,
Speaker 2: and some of them will even come. Even if they
Speaker 2: move out, sometimes they'll come back and say, hey, we
Speaker 2: love this so much that we want to do it again.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, it becomes it just becomes a thing
Speaker 1: with the family. It's like this year where this is
Speaker 1: what we do every year. We're going to keep on
Speaker 1: doing it until we can do it no longer. And
Speaker 1: that's a really a good thing, you know. It shows
Speaker 1: that you know, you got a good heart, absolutely, and
Speaker 1: also you just want to help out the cause of
Speaker 1: our teachers and kids everywhere.
Speaker 4: Right. Yeah, people are surprised all the time when they
Speaker 4: come and they can actually physically see all the backpacks
Speaker 4: lined up, and it's.
Speaker 3: It's a little overwhelming.
Speaker 4: You can see tables upon tables, and both on the
Speaker 4: top of the table and on the.
Speaker 3: Bottom beneath the table just rose and rose and rose
Speaker 3: of backpacks.
Speaker 1: Well, that would just that would bowl me over. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to envision that right now. It kind of escaped
Speaker 1: my imagination, but like again, I'll see this someday. But wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And where do you do this.
Speaker 2: We do the packing and the distribute distribution at Saint
Speaker 2: Luke's Episcopal Church downtown and that we pretty much take
Speaker 2: over the whole first flour They're very generous, really extremely.
Speaker 1: Generous with that is great.
Speaker 2: And so our first packing event will be Thursday, July
Speaker 2: thirty first, from six to nine pm or six to
Speaker 2: eight Yes, So that's our first one for the families
Speaker 2: to come to sign up. And then because we want
Speaker 2: to try to do it at different times so people
Speaker 2: that work can come and people that have other things.
Speaker 2: And so the next one is the next morning at
Speaker 2: nine o'clock or nine thirty. I think we said hi.
Speaker 3: And sign up genius. It still says nine to twelve, okay.
Speaker 2: Nine to twelve, and then we're gonna break for lunch
Speaker 2: and do it from one thirty to three thirty that
Speaker 2: same day, and then Saturday morning will be the finale
Speaker 2: of packing.
Speaker 1: Stick a bow on it.
Speaker 2: We're going to get it all done from nine to
Speaker 2: noon on Saturday.
Speaker 1: That is incredible. How long this been going on?
Speaker 2: Over twenty years?
Speaker 1: Oh wow?
Speaker 2: They actually got the five and one C three in
Speaker 2: two thousand and nine, but had been doing it through
Speaker 2: other in a smaller way before that.
Speaker 1: Now, are both of you educators, I know, well.
Speaker 2: Unless you count Sunday school.
Speaker 1: Oh okay. But as an educator, this helps in so
Speaker 1: many ways I understand, because everyone's ready to learn.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: One of the biggest hits that kids can get is
Speaker 4: coming to school unprepared, not having what they need, and
Speaker 4: kind of starting off being behind their peers. So socially,
Speaker 4: it's great for students to be able to walk in
Speaker 4: everything they need. And we're pretty unique in how we
Speaker 4: handle it because we actually take each individual school list
Speaker 4: so at the school and grade level that they're in,
Speaker 4: and they get everything on their list. So a lot
Speaker 4: of places will have generic backpacks, which is great, a
Speaker 4: great start, but we're pretty proud of the fact that
Speaker 4: we're very personalized.
Speaker 1: Well that that is so good. And the kids don't
Speaker 1: know a difference, you know, they all they know is
Speaker 1: that they're going to school and they're getting they're getting
Speaker 1: ready to learn, and they don't have to feel like
Speaker 1: they're kind of single down or anything. That's a that's
Speaker 1: a good benefit. I can kind of speak from experience
Speaker 1: on that. So, yeah, wonderful. Good on you for thinking
Speaker 1: like this and making sure that everything's right and ready
Speaker 1: to go, and the youngsters really don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about a thing except learning.
Speaker 3: Something new today, right, and hopefully every day.
Speaker 1: And well yeah, you know, every day kids will surprise you.
Speaker 1: You never know what it's going to take to turn
Speaker 1: on that little light and they have that aha moment.
Speaker 1: Next thing you know, they start excelling in things. So
Speaker 1: it's wonderful good hearted folks do, and good hearted things
Speaker 1: back to backpacks? Where can we find out more about
Speaker 1: everything that we've just discussed maybe some future things. Do
Speaker 1: you have a you we've talked about the website, correct,
Speaker 1: and now do we have a Facebook paged?
Speaker 2: Yes, we do, and it's just called Washington County School
Speaker 2: Supply Drive. Okay, that's our face, that's our formal name,
Speaker 2: and that's where the Facebook page is. Great. So we
Speaker 2: also have a fundraiser coming up.
Speaker 1: Well, there you go. What you got.
Speaker 2: We're going to be at Freddy's on July twenty third
Speaker 2: from five to nine.
Speaker 1: What will we do there at Freddy's in order to
Speaker 1: help you help with other kids?
Speaker 2: Mention that you're with pack the backpacks and our fundraiser okay, yeah, and.
Speaker 1: Eat any a portion of the proceeds we'll.
Speaker 2: Go to the Yes, the group. Yes, it is a
Speaker 2: special night for us.
Speaker 1: What a delicious way to make a difference. Absolutely, Maybe
Speaker 1: give me the.
Speaker 2: Shaken Yeah, don't forget the custard.
Speaker 1: Oh, Collie, Collie, that is so good stuff. Wow.
Speaker 2: Okay, in the date again, July twenty third.
Speaker 1: July twenty third, all right, that's coming.
Speaker 3: Up specifically from five to nine pm.
Speaker 1: Five to nine, yes, okay, go to supper twice. If
Speaker 1: you can make it count for the kids.
Speaker 3: That's right, bring your family and friends.
Speaker 1: That is wonderful. I understand the Army's one did pretty
Speaker 1: good too. Yes, I think I think you found a
Speaker 1: delicious little routine in order to maybe, yeah, help I
Speaker 1: take the edge off as far as some of the
Speaker 1: costs and everything.
Speaker 2: Right later in the fall, we're going to have another bingo.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we're at the fair runs.
Speaker 2: No, it'll be at Saint Lo Saint looks okay, So
Speaker 2: that's going to be October twenty fifth, So more details coming,
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 1: That means you'll be back right yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: In indeed, the Yellow Shirt Brigade returns, so we can
Speaker 1: talk about that and get everybody all jacked up for BINGO.
Speaker 1: Great Debbie, Debbie, I want to thank you both for
Speaker 1: being here today and telling us about pack the backpacks,
Speaker 1: and of course the three in person opportunities and the
Speaker 1: online opportunity to get signed up and how we can
Speaker 1: help a friendies on the twenty.
Speaker 2: Third from five to nine.
Speaker 1: All right, very good, Thank you very much for coming
Speaker 1: in today. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thank you