Thank You!

To all of our volunteers, community members, businesses and churches that contributed items and their time for the Back to School Project this year! 

 This would not have been possible with out all of you!

We were able to distribute back packs to our six local schools and help many happy children!

Foothills Rural Community Ministry will be collecting school supplies for students in the Holland Patent Central and Remsen School Districts, whose families are facing difficult financial circumstances.  

Some of the requested items are:

folders (2 pockets)                  crayons (box of 24) glue sticks              colored pencils                3-ring binders                                        spiral notebooks                      notebook filler paper                              square post-it notes         index cards 

pencil cases/bags                     scissors for children                               highlighters                     dry erase markers

composition notebooks            tab dividers                                            pens                                 pencils         

erasers (large pink and cap erasers)                                                                                     

We appreciate the people of the community helping us with this project by donating needed supplies. There will be collection boxes for donated supplies at the Adirondack Bank in Holland Patent and Key Bank in Barneveld.  Area churches also helped us with this project by collecting supplies.  FRCM will distributed these supplies to the 2 Remsen Schools and the 4 Holland Patent Central Schools the week before the school year begins.

These donated items help families who are struggling financially, by allowing them to use the money they would have used to purchase school supplies to buy food and pay for other necessities.  The proper school supplies help all the students start the school year with the tools they need for learning. 

As with so many of our seasonal projects, volunteers are shopping for bargains all year long.  You can help by picking up extra items as you see them on sale in our local stores. Thank you!

                   If you have any questions about this project, or you need more information, or you have supplies that you would like to donate, please call Kathleen at 315-865-8334 or the FRCM office 315-865-5854.