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09/29/2016 12:01 AM

YMCA Operation Backpack Distributes Backpacks to Shoreline Families


From left are Matt Mulé, Debbie Quinn, Lynn Coville, Kathy Scholl, Tony Sharillo, and McKenzie Mulé. Photo by Chris Pallatto

The Valley Shore YMCA stuffed almost 100 new backpacks with school supplies to help ensure that all children have the same opportunity to start school with the tools to be successful. YMCA members donated full backpacks with sweatshirts, pens, pencils, pads, binders, and other supplies to the Old Saybrook Social Services Help Day on Aug. 25. Additional backpacks will be delivered to Old Lyme, Clinton, Westbrook, and Region 4 schools for families unable to make the Social Service Help Day.