'Back to School Jam' Saturday

Volunteers assembled school supply bags Friday.

Plainfield youngsters preparing to return to school -- which begins Thursday, September 6th -- will be able to load up on free school supplies Saturday at the 21st annual Roger K. Cassett Back-to-School Jam.

Volunteers are expected to distribute over 750,000 free items to help students between the ages of 5 and 18 with materials for school.

Organizer Martin Cox, a member of the Plainfield Board of Education, says the event distributed over 18,000 bags of school supplies to children from 72 communities last year.

The bags include such items as notebooks, pens, pencils, crayons, filler paper, binders, report folders and erasers.

Besides the school items, there will be information booths for nonprofits and businesses with a school and family orientation.

The event is at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, rain or shine.

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21st Annual School Supply Giveaway
Saturday, August 25
10 AM - 2 PM
Rain or Shine

St. Mark's Episcopal Church
1430 Park Avenue, Plainfield

-- Dan Damon

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