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Girl Scout Troop #60034 Collects Backpacks and School Supplies

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Local Girl Scout troop #60034 from Newbury Park spent their summer collecting recycle items to raise money to buy 20 backpacks and school supplies for 20 lucky underprivileged kids in Oxnard.

On Monday night, August 30th, the Girl Scouts held an ice cream party for these kids and their families.

The Girl Scouts spent the preceding weekend baking cupcakes, cookies and bars for all the kids and their families to enjoy, along with ice cream and lemonade. After the kids enjoyed all the yummy desserts, the backpacks were handed out to 12 girls and 8 boys.

The recipients started school the next day, so they were ready and excited for their first day of school. Troop #60034 leaders are: Kathleen Banaszkiewcz Sanna Fredriksson

THANK YOU for your continued support.

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Pictured left to right: Julie Fisher, Angela Mitchell, Lynda Miller, Holly Cole

We have a strong relationship with Verizon. They have generously given us grants, did a book drive for us, and link us into their newest web site: THINKFINITY.COM as a great educational tool for the kids in our tutoring program.

Verizon has also graciously announced that they will be doing a school supply drive for us. We appreciate VERIZON!

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Backpack handouts
Our 15th annual Back to School party will take place in early September. We hand out back packs filled with new school supplies to hundreds of kids in need. If you can help in any way, just email us from the web, or contact any one of our Board Members for a pick up.

Fall Festival
Will be held in late October at Mel Cummings Ranch in Santa Paula. If you can donate anything, please email Lynda at: lynda@supportforthekids.org

Christmas
We will be helping needy families again this year. Last year we gave a small appliance, blankets, towels, food, a laundry basket filled with toiletries and cleaning supplies and a $50 gift card to Walmart to over 571 families. We hope we can reach 650 families this year, with your help.!

Support for the Kids works hard all year long to reach the foster and underprivileged kids and their families in Ventura County. We have NO paid staff and NO overhead, with 97 cents of every dollar raised being spent on the kids.

EASTER, 2010

3,150 kids had a funtastic time at 7 different egg hunts in Oxnard, Fillmore, Piru, Ventura and Santa Paula.

250 hard working local girl scouts helped us stuff the 31,000 brightly colored eggs filled with candy, money and gift certificates. If the egg contained a special paper, the kids were able to pick out a new toy. We also handed out freshly baked chocolate chip cookies made with love from National Charity League. The kids really look forward to our hunts every year. For most of them, this is the only hunt they will participate in.

"GET REAL" REAL ESTATE GROUP

A group of local real estate agents, loan and escrow officers meet monthly to network and plan ways they can give back to the community. Support for the Kids has been the lucky recipient of their generous efforts. They donated and collected over 42 new bikes, including helmets and locks for us to give away. At the end of the school year, the bikes were given away to lucky recipients, where the kids had to have perfect attendance, improved grades, were helpful in the classroom and had good attitudes. The bikes were handed out at 6 different Family Resource Centers.

Carnival in May for 350 kids

We held a Spring Carnival in late May for 350 kids at a site in Oxnard. We were lucky to get the help and hard work from Girl Scout troop #1034 working on their gold badge. There was pizza, smoothies, face painting a DJ, games, prizes and lot of fun for all.

Clothing Handouts

We handout out new and slightly used clothing to families in need almost every week at one of the 17 Family Resource Centers we serve. Clothing comes from individual donors, local clothing businesses and National Charity League thrift store. It's a perfect fit, we get clothing that one no longer needs and we pass it on to those in need. Everyone is happy.