Volunteers fill 2,600 backpacks

  • By Shanna Fortier
  • | 4:00 a.m. August 18, 2011
Linda Mahan, of the United Way Flagler Women’s Initiative, was one of several volunteers who stuffed backpacks for the Flagler Education Foundation Packs for Backs event. COURTESY PHOTO
Linda Mahan, of the United Way Flagler Women’s Initiative, was one of several volunteers who stuffed backpacks for the Flagler Education Foundation Packs for Backs event. COURTESY PHOTO
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More than 50 volunteers of all ages donated their time to fill 2,600 backpacks with school supplies Aug. 3 and Aug. 4, at Flagler Palm Coast High School.

Flagler County Medical Reserve Corp., United Way Flagler Women’s Initiative, Flagler Volunteer Services, Prosperity Bank and Intracoastal Bank sent representatives, who formed an assembly line to stuff, zip, box, label and ship backpacks to each Flagler public school, where they will be distributed to children in need. 
 

 

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