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When the annual-back-to-school program was coming up short of supplies, community members and businesses pulled together this week and donated the needed backpacks, folders, loose-leaf paper, glue sticks and markers, La Crosse County community liaison Lindsey Schwarz-Nichols said.
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Lindsey Schwarz-Nichols carries a stack of backpacks Friday out of Signature Chiropractic and Massage in Onalaska, Wis. The business collected school supplies and funds for the county's annual back-to-school program. (Dick Riniker photo) |
Signature Chiropractic and Massage at 1840 E. Main St. in Onalaska collected school
supplies and donations at its Onalaska office and was able to raise about $1,000 during a weeklong promotion Aug. 18-22, said Promise Honeywell, a chiropractor who owns the business.
Honeywell said the funds were used to buy everything the county was asking for when the Tribune published a story about the program Aug. 23.
“It was fun to answer someone else’s call,” Honeywell said.
After the Tribune’s story about the shortage of supplies, Schwarz-Nichols said, she received many phone calls from people who wanted to help. The donation surge will ensure all families who registered — including those on the waiting list — are helped. Any leftover supplies will go to local schools for children who are unprepared the first week of school.
About 800 students have sought assistance this year.
