Helping the kids gear up for school…

Rick thanks Michele and Islanders Bank for the school supplies which will help get school off on the right foot for kids on the island...Brenna and Tito were on hand to help bring all the "gear" over to the schools, too....

“Wow, thanks!”

Brenna, Tito and Michele unload the goods...

That’s what superintendent Rick Thompson said when Islanders Bank’s Michele Morton brought over the school supplies that had been donated over the past month. The Bank’s annual Gear Up! program asks islanders to donate pens, colors, paper, calculators, dictionaries, and things with Hannah Montana on ’em, which are passed on to the schools to be made available to students when they need them but have trouble getting them when money’s tight.

Michele said all the supplies that were donated last year were used, which demonstrated there was a real need for the drive…so the response to this year’s program was gratifying.

Thanks to everyone who donated!

Helping kids...

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