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A Few Clouds Packing up for school success
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The Waldman siblings, from left Levi, 8, Aryeh, 6, Bracha, 4 and Aiza, 9, helped pick out the markers that were packed in the backpacks at Supplies for Success.
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Spiral notebooks were collected by volunteer Carol Lippman before the items went into the backpacks.
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Tagging the finished packed backpacks to be sorted was 13-year-old Rebecca Aaron’s job at Supplies for Success.
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Hundreds of backpacks were packed and sorted and will now be distributed to students up to 12th grade.
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At the registration desk, Sharon Fogel and Irwin Gershon, helped the volunteers get organized at the Supplies for Success backpack packing event.
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Volunteers ranging in age from 4 to senior citizen took part in the annual Supplies for Success program sponsored by the UJA Federation of New York, where donated backpacks are filled with a variety of school supplies for students through high school.
This year, the packing took place at the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns campus in Lawrence on Aug. 13. Binders, colored pencils, crayons, glue sticks, highlighters, index cards, marble notebooks, markers, pencils, pens, pocket folders, scissors and spiral notebooks filled the backpacks.
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