Multiple events last weekend paired helping hands with helping hearts to provide back to school supplies to local children along with other means of support.
The Opportunities Industrialization Center on Friday continued a seven-year tradition by giving out 250 supply kits with folders, notebooks, pencils, pens, glue sticks and loose-leaf paper during its annual Community Appreciation Day.
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