Helping kids with the back-to-school basics
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Fashion Bug employee Nayeli Murillo straightens some of the school supplies that have been donated at the Delavan store. The Stuff the Bus campaign runs through next month.
DELAVAN — Most students in Walworth County don’t need to report for classes until Sept. 6. However, parents and teachers already are busy preparing themselves and their children for another hectic school year.
And they’re doing it in a climate in which the recession has squeezed the wallets of lower- and middle-class families, while forcing major belt-tightening measures at school districts because of severe cuts in state aid stipulated in the recently passed state budget.
So, although clothes, shoes and other miscellaneous items are major expenditures, the first things on most back-to-school checklists are supplies — crayons, pencils, paper, calculators and the all-important backpack.
Because of increased needs and diminishing resources, parents and educators are seeking — and receiving — help from area businesses and volunteers in seeing that children have the required supplies.
Fashion Bug in Delavan is sponsoring its second annual Stuff the Bus campaign, and Blackhawk Community Credit Union, also located on East Geneva Street, is conducting its Cram the Van drive for a fifth consecutive year ... CONTINUED.
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