Every year the Legacy Foundation in our area puts together back-packs for the young kids starting back to school. The Kiwanis clubs in the area donate to help with the cost and we volunteer to help pass them out.
Today, we visited three schools (okay, so I missed the first one because I was cleaning up my yard) and passed out, I think they said, 3,000 back packs. The schools were Fort Mohave Elementary, Mohave Valley Elementary and Mohave Mesa Elementary. Could you guess we live in Mohave County? The Kiwanis has been doing this for years, but this was the first time I was able to participate.
Inside the back-packs are 5 pencils, a spiral notebook, a ruler, a comb and brush, a water bottle, A Phoenix Suns cap, glue, scissors, a box of crayons, an eraser, a pencil sharpener, a tooth brush and tooth paste. Just about everything one would need in school.
Once in awhile, a student would say that they already had a back-pack, that they didn’t need one, but “thank you for the offer.” The other Kiwanians would give that bag to the teacher. I would tell the student that that was great but that he should take this bag and give it to someone else who didn’t have one. That always worked for me. Maybe they didn’t want to argue with that dumb adult.
