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Owens Alumni Association and Community Partners Assist Area
Children with School Supply Drive
Special to The Truth
Owens Community College’s Alumni Association in
collaboration with Books-A-Million Inc., nine Directions
Credit Union branches, two Great Lakes Credit Union branches
and six Genoa Bank branches are reaching out to area
children in need of school supplies by holding a
month-long “Backpack to the Future” school supply drive
ending Thursday, Aug. 18. Collected items will benefit
low-income kindergarten-age school children throughout
northwest Ohio.
The “Backpack to the Future” school supply drive will occur
at Books-A-Million bookstore (2105 Levis Commons Blvd.) in
The Town Center at Levis Commons in Perrysburg; Directions
Credit Union branches (5121 Whiteford Rd.) in Sylvania,
(3000 Tremainsville Rd.) in Toledo, (3321 Briarfield Blvd.)
in Maumee, (4150 Brockway Dr.) in Perrysburg, (3312 Dustin
Rd.) in Oregon, (2533 S. Reynolds Rd.) in Toledo, (3450
Central Ave., Suite 128) in Toledo, (27427 Crossroads Pkwy.)
in Rossford and (1 Owens Corning Pkwy.) in Toledo; Great
Lakes Credit Union branches (5823 Monroe St.) in Sylvania
and (580 Craig Dr.) in Perrysburg; and Genoa Bank branches
(801 Main St.) in Genoa, (3201 Navarre Ave.) in Oregon, (703
Conant St.) in Maumee, (24950 W, State Route 51) in
Millbury, (9920 Old U.S. 20) in Rossford and in (5501 Monroe
St.) Sylvania.
The Toledo Mud Hens will also have collections bins at Fifth
Third Field (406 Washington St.) in Toledo during
their Saturday, July 30 game against the Gwinnett Braves.
The 19 community locations expand the college’s educational
initiative for individuals to drop off their donations.
Among the charitable items that will be accepted as part of
the school supply drive are gently-used or new backpacks,
crayons, markers, bottles of glue, glue sticks, colored
pencils, pencils, pink erasers, school boxes, pocket
folders, marbled covered composition books and Kleenex
tissues.
According to Kaye Koevenig, community service chair, Owens
Alumni Association, the Northwest Ohio community?s initial
response toward the “Backpack to the Future” supply drive
has been positive.
“Owens’ ‘Backpack to the Future’ school supply drive
initiative has expanded efforts thanks to the support of
Books-A-Million, Directions Credit Union, Genoa Bank and
Great Lakes Credit Union,” she said. “I encourage area
residents to lend a helping hand to those children who are
in need of school supplies.”
Since establishing the program in 2004, the Owens Alumni
Association has given 4,513 backpacks and 80,911 school
supplies to benefit disadvantaged children throughout
Northwest Ohio.
Owen’s Alumni Association is committed to the personal and
professional success of alumni and students through the
ongoing development of value-added initiatives. Owens has
provided higher education to more than 250,000 students in
its nearly 50-year history.
In addition to the community supply drive locations; area
residents can bring their charitable donations to the
college’s Office of Alumni Relations on the Toledo-area
Campus in Perrysburg Township and the Education Center
Atrium on the Findlay-area Campus in Findlay.
Or more information about the school supply drive, or to
make a donation, contact the Alumni Relations Office at
(567) 661-7876 or
alumni@owens.edu.
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