Laura Moore, executive director of the Owens Community College Alumni Association, left and partially obscured, waits as Kaye Koevenig, chair of the effort, center, helps Demarko Huntley to put on a backpack. Kindergarten students at Toledo Public School's Old West End Academy received backpacks and school supplies as part of the Backpack to the Future program, which donated 572 backpacks and 10,092 school supply items in Lucas, Wood, and Hancock County schools.
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Navarre Elementary School principal Katherine Taylor, left, receives help with the boxes of school supplies from Cassius Shaw, second from left and rear, and Mekhi Henderson, putting the box into the trunk, both eighth graders at Old West End Academy, and from Navarre Elementary's Jason Dixon, right.
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Laura Moore, Demarko Huntley, and Katera Riley, watch as Debbie Green helps Joseph Ridley put on a backpack.
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Laura Moore, executive director, OCC Alumni Association, rear and left, Demarko Huntley, and Katera Riley, watch as OCC Alumni Association member Debbie Green helps Joseph Ridley to put on a backpack.
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Dominique Ezell, right, points out some of the backpacks to Madysen Graham, left, and Caleb Jones, center. Themes of the backpacks ranged from Angry Birds to Hello Kitty, Spiderman and Dora.
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Kindergarten students see the variety of backpacks and the crayons, markers and other items they will soon receive.
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