School Supply Drive – Lake Placid and Sebring
The Suncoast National Bank is hosting a school supply drive until August 21. All items can be dropped off at the bank, located at the corner of Tower Street and US 27 in Lake Placid from 9am to 4pm from Mondays through Friday.
Items most needed are binders, folders, notebook papers, pencils, pens, erasers, rulers, crayons, markers, index cards, glue, dividers and highlighters.
Edward Jones branch office at 17 Ryant Blvd in Sebring will be accepting school supplies for local children in need through The Guardian Ad Litem Program. Items can be dropped off at the office during regular business hours through August 21.
The Lake Placid Board of Realtors has collected
500 sheets of copy paper (1 package), 1,950 shhets notebook paper , (13 packs) 40 sheets of primary writing paper, (1 pad) 40 sheets of construction paper, (1 pad) 4 composition books, 3 spiral notebooks, 3 folders, 2 pencil cases, 2 rulers 68 pens (5 packages), 150 no. 2 pencils (10 packages, 8 individual), 10 mechanical pencils (1 package), 36 colored pencils (3 packages), 20 markers (2 packages), 4 highlighters (1 package), 704 crayons (11 boxes of 24, 2 boxes of 64), 400 index cards (4 packages), 3 glue sticks (1 package), 3 bottles of glue
and $177 to donate to Manna Ministries.
Please consider donating school supplies to the above, even the smallest donation makes a big difference.