Starting the School Year Right
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:
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Pencils-#2
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Pens-black or
blue ink
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Erasers-pink
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Erasers-pencil
cap
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Crayons-24 crayon
pack
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Colored Pencils
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Dry Erasable
Markers--black
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Children’s
scissors, mostly small blunt, but some pointed for 5th graders
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Glue Sticks
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Individual pencil
sharpeners that hold shavings
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Pencil boxes-hard
cover & Zippered pouches that fit in notebooks
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Loose-leaf 3 ring
Notebooks (some call binders, but that is a confusing term) requests are for 1”
green and 1” any color; 1 ½” any color, 2-2 ½” any color
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3-ring Notebook
Paper, wide lines can be used in all
schools
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Black composition
notebooks
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5 subject spiral
notebooks
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Single subject
spiral notebooks
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2 Pocket
Folders—red, yellow, blue, green, purple.
Teachers prefer plastic
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Index dividers
for 3 ring loose-leaf notebooks
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Clip Boards (only
for kindergarten)
• 3”x 5” index
cards
Foothills accepts donations throughout the year in the our office.
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.
