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Stuff Bus filling school closets with supplies and essential clothing

The Flagler County Education Foundation program will continue to collect donations and distribute supplies at each of the schools throughout the year.

By Brent Woronoff
| 7:00 a.m. August 1, 2023

The Flagler County Education Foundation's Stuff Bus collects supplies for students and teachers for back to school and throughout the school year. Courtesy photo

Ormond Beach Observer
Schools

The Flagler County Education Foundation has been stuffing schools' supply closets through its Stuff Bus Program.

STUFF is an acronym — Supplying Things U Find Fundamental. The Stuff Bus has been collecting school supplies and essential clothing at supply drives around the county.

The Ed Foundation will have a table set up for drop-offs at the Back to School Jam, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Aug. 5 at the Flagler Palm Coast High gym.

Shoes, socks and underwear are especially needed. The wish list also includes notebooks, paper, pens and pencils, crayons, scissors, toiletry items and jeans.

Each school has a Stuff Bus closet with a coordinator. Lauren Walsh-Rami at FPC is the program's main coordinator.

Rymfire Elementary School has the main closet, with students from the TRAIL Transition Program packing orders and making sure all the supplies are in stock, said the Ed Foundation's Stephanie Ellis, who leads the program.

Ellis and Maryiotti Johnson, the foundation's assistant director of finance and operations, spoke about the program during a recent School Board meeting spotlight.

The Stuff Bus will continue to collect supplies throughout the school year for students and teachers in need, Johnson said.

For more information, call Ellis at 386-437-7526, Ext. 1128.