WEEKEND: Yellow bus to be stuffed with school supply donations this Saturday in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles School District invites people to Stuff the Bus with school supplies Saturday.

A yellow school bus will await donations from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the parking lot of the Walmart Supercenter at 3411 E. Kolonels Way.

Donations of school supplies also can be made at the Port Angeles School District Central Services Building at 216 Fourth St., across from the Clallam County Courthouse.

Supplies will be given to Port Angeles students in need at a Back to School Event set from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 20 at Jefferson Elementary, 218 E. 12th St.

School supplies will be provided free to students from kindergarten through 12th grades and other services will be provided to assist in preparing students for the next school year.

Among supplies needed are backpacks, binders, calculators, crayons, dividers, erasers, bottles of glue and glue sticks, regular markers and dry-erase markers, highlighters, composition and spiral notebooks, college-ruled and wide-ruled paper, pens, pencils, pencil boxes, pencil pouches, pencil sharpeners, rulers and scissors.

For more information or to make a donation, contact Lisa Lyon at Lutheran Community Services NW at llyon@csnw.org or 360-452-5437.

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