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Last year, the Stuff the Bus program helped 550 students in Blair County receive supplies necessary to begin the school year.
Stuff the Bus is a community collaborative effort with nearly all supplies donated or purchased with funds that are donated by a variety of local businesses, agencies, clubs, churches, and individuals.
Last year, the Stuff the Bus program helped 550 students in Blair County receive supplies necessary to begin the school year.
Stuff the Bus is a community collaborative effort with nearly all supplies donated or purchased with funds that are donated by a variety of local businesses, agencies, clubs, churches, and individuals.
Stuff the Bus has been a community event at the Family Resource Center and United Way of Blair County since 2010.
The program helps Blair County students in kindergarten all the way to Grade 12 by providing them with the items that they need to start their school year ready to learn.
Typically, children will receive a backpack (or, for older students, a string bag) that contains items that are specific to their grade level including pencils, pens, erasers, markers, colored pencils, glue or glue sticks, scissors, pencil boxes or pouches, composition books, notebook paper, binders, one subject and multi subject notebooks, and other miscellaneous items.
Stuff the Bus is a community collaborative effort with nearly all supplies donated or purchased with funds that are donated by a variety of local businesses, agencies, clubs, churches, and individuals.
Last year’s program helped 550 Blair County students receive supplies necessary to begin the school year.
This year’s event has enjoyed the help of several community organizations where the public may take donations. Such locations include the Altoona Area Public Library, the Bellwood-Antis Public Library, the Hollidaysburg Area Public Library, CONTACT Altoona, M&T Bank (Plank Road location), the Family Resource Center, and United Way of Blair County.
Donations may also be made between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. from July 22 through July 29 at Wal-Mart in Altoona.
Other participants that are collecting supplies and funds within their organizations are Altoona Sunrise Rotary, Blair County Chapter of Pa. Retired School Employees, Blair Drug & Alcohol Partnerships, County of Blair, Faith United Church of Christ, First Presbyterian Church of Hollidaysburg, UPMC Altoona, Veeder Root, and Ward Transport and Logistics.
In addition to that, other donors include Roaring Spring Paper Products and Sheetz. Furthermore, Beckwith Buses will be donating a bus that will pick up the supplies on Friday, Aug. 5.
Donations will be accepted from now until Thursday, Aug. 4.
Then, on Monday, Aug. 8, volunteers will sort and count all of the supplies. The next day, on Tuesday, Aug. 9, they will pack the supplies, and on Aug. 11, those registered will pick it up.
Students must be registered in order to receive any supplies. To register, parents and guardians may call the Family Resource Center at (814) 317-5108, ext. 402 from now through Friday, Aug. 5. Those wishing to register must provide a parent or guardian’s name, the name of the school district, the student’s gender and the grade the grade that they will be entering, and they must make an appointment to pick up their supplies on Thursday, Aug. 11.
E. S. Young can be reached at eyoung@thedailyherald.net.
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