KidSmart’s Ice Cream Social
In case you were unable to join us for the Ice Cream Social last Friday, here are a few more updates on the event and donations that we received…
Enterprise donated 3 large cargo vans for us to use to pick up the supplies from various buildings throughout St. Louis. At 8:30 Friday morning, three Enterprise volunteers, including Keith Hoefferlin and board member Shannon Ranson, and three of our staff members, Christy, Danielle, and Connie, departed from KidSmart to collect supplies around the city and bring them back to our warehouse. Keith and Danielle collected supplies from 6 drives, Shannon collected supplies from 10, and Christy and Connie collected supplies from 13.
Meanwhile, Jennifer stayed back at KidSmart, working diligently to set up everything for the party, and she did an absolutely fantastic job! Quik Trip also donated 100 delicious sandwiches and cookies for the event.
After much anticipation, the trucks finally arrived back at KidSmart, completely STUFFED with school supplies for kids in St. Louis. It was an exciting, fulfilling, and moving moment for everyone present.
Many of our other participants also dropped off the supplies they raised this month. All told, supplies from nearly 35 drives arrived at KidSmart on Friday! While we do not have an estimates of how many supplies have been donated to this year’s drive, I’ll post information about this as soon as we have it.
CW 11 sent a news crew to the event and footage aired in the Friday evening news. A reporter from The North County Journal also attended. Check their website soon for an article about the event.
THANK YOU to Enterprise and its volunteers for donating both trucks and personal time, and and THANK YOU to QT for the making sure all who attended were well fed!!
Posted by Shirey on September 04, 2008 | comments (0) | Permalink
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