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ADC employees join supply drive effort
'Pack to School' helps needy Arizona children
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From left: Bonnie Roberts of Arizona Correctional
Industries Employee Action Committee; AAIII Christine Sosa, ADC event
co-chair; Carly Yokoyama, ACI event coordinator; and ESA Heather Price,
ADC event co-chair. The four played a key role in organizing ADC’s
participation in the Pack to School supply drive, which benefits needy
school children throughout Arizona. |
Arizona Department of Corrections employees joined
other state agencies to support Governor Janet Napolitano’s “Pack to
School” supply drive July 13 at the Arizona Capitol.
ADC volunteers met early to load a corrections bus
with school supplies donated by department employees before heading to
the capitol to participate in the event, which was supported by other
state agencies, including Department of Health Services, Department of
Transportation and Department of Administration.
Joined by representatives from the Salvation Army,
Sleep America, radio station KOOL 94.5 and Harris Printers, Governor
Napolitano addressed a crowd of supporters before loading the items onto
a school bus with the help of some eager school children.
Key organizers from ADC included co-chairs
Christine Sosa and Heather Price, Christina Valenzuela, Virginia
Strankman, Laurie Berg, Pamela Evans, Patricia Fuentes, Carly Yokoyama
and Lisa Cooper.
The supply drive continues through July 28 and
employees are encouraged to contribute. Needed items include: back
packs, no. 2 pencils, erasers, paints, spiral notebooks, three-ring
binders, crayons, coloring books, rulers, dictionaries, markers,
calculators, scissors (blunt), glue sticks, loose leaf paper and
thesauri.
Once the drive is complete, Salvation Army will
distribute the school supplies to needy students throughout Arizona.
Pack the Bus Photos (click on photos to enlarge)
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