Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It's time now for our community connection right here on
Speaker 1: K one, the one you trust, and it's time to
Speaker 1: start talking back to schools and packing the backpacks.
Speaker 2: And we have Debbie and Cindy here with us today.
Speaker 2: How are we doing, ladies, great, we're good.
Speaker 3: Thank you?
Speaker 2: What I tell you what?
Speaker 1: It's been a short summer, it seems, but you're ready
Speaker 1: to get things rocking and rolling.
Speaker 4: We've been very busy, Oh my gosh, buying things.
Speaker 2: How's the shopping being going along?
Speaker 3: Well, so far, so good.
Speaker 5: I ordered like seven hundred and twenty notebooks and we're
Speaker 5: just getting ready.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's just a drop in the bucket, tom.
Speaker 2: Oh it is. Well, that seemed like a large number.
Speaker 2: Now how many backpacks you're thinking we're going to be using.
Speaker 4: We are going to be packing two thousand, five hundred
Speaker 4: and one backpacks. And that's the number of applications that
Speaker 4: we've received this year.
Speaker 3: And then we do get light backpacks.
Speaker 5: They don't get a backpack, but they get what supplies
Speaker 5: we have left.
Speaker 2: Gotcha. So yeah, how long you've been Has this been
Speaker 2: an operation.
Speaker 3: Twenty five years? Maybe?
Speaker 2: Yep? Wow?
Speaker 1: Wow, Wow, this is unbelievable. So do you need volunteers?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? Do you want to go?
Speaker 2: We need them. I just saw that a little thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So in the next eight days we're going to
Speaker 4: pack all of those backpacks and distribute them. So there
Speaker 4: are four packing times this Thursday the thirtieth from six
Speaker 4: to eight pm, Friday morning from nine thirty to eleven thirty,
Speaker 4: Friday afternoon one thirty to three thirty, and Saturday, August
Speaker 4: I from nine thirty to eleven thirty. And we will
Speaker 4: be completely finished when we finish those shifts.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Now, City, You've told me this time and time again.
Speaker 1: It's a well oiled machine. A lot of folks already
Speaker 1: know what they're doing before they can get in there.
Speaker 5: People are so impressed when they come and they realize
Speaker 5: how organized it is.
Speaker 3: But you know, when you do it so many years,
Speaker 3: you learn better and better how to.
Speaker 5: Do it, and so we think we have it fairly perfected,
Speaker 5: but then you never know what might happen.
Speaker 1: We're ready, So volunteers, how do we become a volunteer?
Speaker 3: Well, we do have a.
Speaker 4: Sign up genius site that's off of our website. But
Speaker 4: even if the shift is full, just come on down
Speaker 4: to Saint Luke's Episcopal Church during the times that we've
Speaker 4: said and just there'll be a desk there and a
Speaker 4: lovely lady named Pat will sign you in and get
Speaker 4: you going.
Speaker 2: Wow. I understand we have some fun coming up too,
Speaker 2: we do.
Speaker 5: We have Bingo September the eighteenth. It's a Friday night.
Speaker 3: At Saint Luke's. And you know, every we.
Speaker 5: Tried to have something besides Frido Chili Pie, and we
Speaker 5: had people kept saying, where is that Fredo Chili Pie?
Speaker 2: Got to stick with.
Speaker 3: That is exactly right.
Speaker 5: And then we also have two days where they can
Speaker 5: support us by going to local restaurants. They can go
Speaker 5: to mc allisters on August the tenth between five and
Speaker 5: nine and I think we get twenty percent of the yes.
Speaker 5: And then Panda Express on Friday, August the fourteenth, all day,
Speaker 5: So go out and eat, folks, then help us out.
Speaker 1: I don't need to be convinced too much now that
Speaker 1: it's for a great cause. Double it up, baby, Let's go.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Check our Facebook page Washington County School Supply Drive
Speaker 4: for more details about those fundraisers.
Speaker 3: There'll be flyers on.
Speaker 4: There and we'll also be handing them out during the
Speaker 4: time our parents come and get the backpacks Layter.
Speaker 1: Wow, So that that's got to be a day right there,
Speaker 1: two days, two days, that's going to.
Speaker 2: Be two days right there.
Speaker 1: Yes, where parents come in and I can just imagine
Speaker 1: the relief on their base.
Speaker 5: Well, and I signed kids up at it Mary Martha
Speaker 5: Outreach and a lot of the parents will come through
Speaker 5: on this. I've already signed up online and they let
Speaker 5: me know. And we really try to reach a lot
Speaker 5: of people. You know, we all go to a copy
Speaker 5: and we have flyers all over, so we really are
Speaker 5: trying these parents rely on us.
Speaker 2: Now the use for Washington County kids primarily all.
Speaker 4: Washington County schools in Washington County, even private schools.
Speaker 3: Wow, we apply well.
Speaker 5: And the main reason we do private schools because we
Speaker 5: want people to realize it's because someone might be on
Speaker 5: the scholarship. Sure, so we don't just necessarily say if
Speaker 5: you send your child to our private school, you can
Speaker 5: get our supplies.
Speaker 1: There are some kids in that private school by the
Speaker 1: skin of their financial.
Speaker 5: Saclan and so we really want to and not only
Speaker 5: do we help students, we feel like we help the teachers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you do I've got a lot of educators in
Speaker 1: my family, and I can't tell you the quiet time,
Speaker 1: they don't say much about it, but they dig into
Speaker 1: their own pockets quite a bit.
Speaker 3: You have to yeah, right, God, so this is.
Speaker 1: Wonderful now outside of going to the restaurants and you know,
Speaker 1: enjoying a nice meal and putting a fabulous twenty percent
Speaker 1: into the backpacks. Are you opposed to anyone writing you
Speaker 1: a healthy check for proble?
Speaker 2: Absolutely not. I just want to make sure I didn't
Speaker 2: want to insult anybody.
Speaker 3: No, And we do apply for grants.
Speaker 5: There's certain stipulations and so the people that apply on
Speaker 5: our behalf and our group have to go through quite
Speaker 5: a bit to get the applications ready to see and
Speaker 5: in so we are appreciate any and everything we get.
Speaker 4: We also have a very active church group of churches
Speaker 4: that are doing what we call Product of the Month,
Speaker 4: and every month we send out the item that we
Speaker 4: would like for them to purchase and they will we
Speaker 4: come and pick it up and they and they have
Speaker 4: really made a difference in our in our things that
Speaker 4: we get donated, actual things, you know, like products like
Speaker 4: twelve count colored pencils or crayons, or black dry erase markers.
Speaker 4: Do you know that we use over seven thousand bluesticks.
Speaker 3: In this operation.
Speaker 2: I believe that somehow for that kind of adds.
Speaker 4: Exactly, And so they they really enjoy at Saint Luke's.
Speaker 4: They just have a ask it outside the sanctuary and
Speaker 4: you just pop in your thing and at the end
Speaker 4: of the month they'll bring it to us. So if
Speaker 4: any churches out there would love to join in our group,
Speaker 4: they can send a contact in through our.
Speaker 3: Website.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Pack the Backpacks all one dot org.
Speaker 3: Okay, I think this is a good time too to
Speaker 3: plug Saint Luke's. They are fantastic to us.
Speaker 5: They let us in in June and we just take
Speaker 5: over there downstairs and then they let us have a
Speaker 5: whole week upstairs and they're just amazing for what they
Speaker 5: do for us, and we just they are a true
Speaker 5: supporter of our community and.
Speaker 2: Pack the Backpacks wonderful partners, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: Yes, I don't know what we would do without them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, be harder, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: So once again, we have the website, we have the
Speaker 1: Facebook page, and of course we've mentioned the dates we're
Speaker 1: going to put that in the news story that we're
Speaker 1: going to put out here a little bit later today,
Speaker 1: so that it's in case you heard the dates and
Speaker 1: you didn't have a chance to write them down.
Speaker 2: We're going to go ahead.
Speaker 5: And take care and we will give those to you
Speaker 5: right now before we leave.
Speaker 2: Let's do that again right now.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, which part?
Speaker 2: Let's go with the packing dates.
Speaker 4: Okay, packing dates volunteers. Yeah, Yes, Thursday night six to eight,
Speaker 4: Friday morning nine thirty to eleven thirty, Friday afternoon one
Speaker 4: to three thirty, Saturday morning nine thirty to eleven thirty.
Speaker 4: And this is a family friendly event. Yes, kids love
Speaker 4: to come and help us pack the backpacks.
Speaker 3: So to get a kickout, yeah, brand your whole family.
Speaker 1: Du Yeah, oh my, well, you know it's because all
Speaker 1: of a sudden they're helping like.
Speaker 3: The big people exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah. It's also a great way to teach them the
Speaker 2: spirit of.
Speaker 3: Volunteerism too, exactly.
Speaker 5: And that's one of the most important things you can
Speaker 5: do is get back to your community.
Speaker 2: Sure it is. Yeah, the community gives us a lot.
Speaker 5: And then don't forget Mingo September eighteenth, and we also
Speaker 5: go to Mcallisters on August tenth and Panda Express on
Speaker 5: August fourteenth.
Speaker 1: Alrighty, those dates are very very important and we'll make
Speaker 1: sure that we have those clearly marked in the news story. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you ladies for coming in. I want to thank
Speaker 1: you in advance for all the time and effort you're
Speaker 1: going to be putting in packing those backpacks this weekend.
Speaker 3: And we thank you for always having us door.
Speaker 2: It's always open.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we appreciate it, all right.
Speaker 2: He thank you very much. Folks. You've been watching and
Speaker 2: listening to our community connection