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Helping children get a good start to the school year

The Heart and Soul Foundation helped get hundreds of children ready for school over the weekend at Sunkist Elementary School in La Puente.

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Heart and Soul volunteers distribute free shoes to some 700 children from schools throughout the Bassett Unified School District.  Corporate sponsors contributed nearly $10,000 in free shoes, backpacks and school supplies, said Maxine Coleman, spokeswoman for the Heart and Soul Foundation.

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Sergio Gomez, left, store manager of the La Puente Rite Aid Pharmacy, fills a bag full of free school supplies for Ashley Luevanos, 9, a student at Van Wig Elementary School in La Puente.

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Georgia Ceniceros, right, hands out free backpacks filled with school supplies.


-- Mary MacVean
Photos courtesy Bassett Unified School District

Posted by Mary Macvean on September 23, 2008 in Current Affairs , Education , Schools , Students | Permalink
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