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"Stuff the Bus" School Supplies Drive

Santa Cruz County Bank, in partnership with the United Way of Santa Cruz County, is a donation site for "Stuff the Bus", a county-wide drive to collect school supplies and backpacks for the neediest students in our county.  Donations will be collected through August 10th at every Santa Cruz County Bank location: Aptos, Capitola, Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley and Watsonville.

Items needed: Backpacks (no red or blue), 12-packs of crayons, 1" binders (no red or blue), filler paper for binders, tab dividers for binders, 12 packs of colored pencils, spiral notebooks (no red or blue), 8 digit calculators, rulers, erasers, pens, pencils, pencil sharpeners, manila folders, glue sticks and scissors.

Why is there a need? The Santa Cruz County Office of Education estimates that there are 3200 children in our county that are classified as "in transition".

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How are the backpacks distributed? They will be distributed through the Santa Cruz County Office of Education's Write Start program. For more details, visit www.unitedwaysc.org.

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