Back to School Event helps more than a thousand students

Corrected 09-05-2012 10:51pm

Once again, the Back to School Consortium
handed out over a thousand backpacks
full of school supplies.
Photo by Steven H. Robinson 2011

By Craig Degginger, Shoreline Schools

Thank you to the Back to School Consortium for helping kids get ready for school

Thank you from the Shoreline School District to the Back to School Consortium for helping more than 1,000 of our students to receive needed school supplies, haircuts and clothing assistance at the annual Shoreline Back to School event on Saturday, August 25 at the North City building.

Families are patient about standing in line
and joyful that their children will have clothing for schools
This is the line for socks and underwear
Photo by Steven H. Robinson 2011

The event represented the collaborative effort of the Back to School Consortium members to support Shoreline and Lake Forest Park families in need with backpacks filled with school supplies, clothing assistance, haircuts, and a resource fair. Again this year the Shoreline and Lake Forest Park community was generous with donations of backpacks, school supplies, clothing and hygiene items, as well as cash donations.

Stylists from the James Allan Salon and students and teachers from the Toni&Guy Academy generously donated their time to provide more than 100 haircuts.

This is the line to go into the clothing area
and pick a new outfit for each child
Photo by Steven H. Robinson 2011

The Lake Forest Park Rotary members kept everyone fed with hot dogs and delicious sweet corn on the cob. (see previous article)

The Works of Shoreline PTA Council did an amazing job providing clothing, socks, underwear and hygiene items to families.

Volunteers from many different Shoreline community groups helped last week with the sorting, packing and distribution of donated supplies in the backpacks. The Shoreline Breakfast Rotary held its weekly meeting at North City, filling hundreds of backpacks.

Back to School Consortium members include the Center for Human Services; City of Lake Forest Park; City of Shoreline; Hopelink; The Works of Shoreline PTA Council; Shoreline School District and the Readiness to Learn Program; Shoreline Community Care; Shoreline Breakfast Rotary; Lake Forest Park Rotary; Dale Turner Family YMCA, Turning Point; The Vineyard; and Ronald United Methodist Church.