Local unions lead school-supply drive
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Last updated 8/21/2019 at 12:06pm
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Kande Merriman, left, a para-professional at Lake Roosevelt Elementary, and Jesse Utz, PSE Union president and Pathways coordinator at Lake Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School, hold signs along Midway Avenue encouraging drivers to stop and donate toward the cause.
It's hard to go to school without school supplies.
The Public School Employees union from Lake Roosevelt, joined this year by the teachers union, worked on Monday to "Stuff The Bus" with school supplies for students ranging from preschoolers to seniors in high school.
PSE members stationed themselves along Midway Avenue with a school bus in Grand Coulee to collect supplies and cash donations towards supplies, while Grand Coulee Dam Education Association members stationed near Harvest Foods in Coulee Dam did the same.
Their efforts raised $720 in cash, including contributions from multiple businesses in the area, PSE Union President Jesse Utz said.
People also donated backpacks, binders, crayons, pencils and more.
Utz explained that when people bought supplies towards the cause at The Coulee Wall Variety Store, the store matched their donations, approximately $290 in value.
Utz also said that LR Elementary School Principal Lisa Lakin will be donating a lot of backpacks.
This is the second year the Stuff The Bus school supply drive has happened.
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