The Back to school season means one thing: stress. For parents and students alike, the beginning of a new school year means new teachers, new daily regimens, and added use of the checkbook. Parents and guardians of students that may fall short while buying school supplies can have one less thing to be worried about. Suzy Traughber is the President of Dinner Seasoned with Love and a Medical Assistant at Taylorville Memorial Hospital. She is known as the brains behind the Backpack Donation Drive. The Backpack Drive looks to fill backpacks with school supplies that are requested every year from classrooms.
The Backpack Drive began July 10th and will run through July 28th. Drop-off locations can be found at the Walmart, located at 1530 West Springfield Road in Taylorville, the Taylorville Memorial Hospital at the Main and South entrances, located at 201 East Pleasant Street in Taylorville, and the YMCA, located at 900 McAdam Drive in Taylorville.
Contributing with donation boxes are the Taylorville Memorial Hospital and the YMCA. Traughber began this initiative in 2013, the drive started small but within a few years, donations began to flow in and many backpacks, filled with necessary items, were put together. Now Morisonville and Kincaid are following suit.
The Taylorville Memorial Hospital is not only accepting donations at the main and south entrances, but seven different teams comprised of the 300 colleagues at TMH are competing for who can bring in the most supplies. Darin Buttz, the Community Health Director is happy to be helping in such an influential way.
Bruce Blanshan is the YMCA Director and enjoys being part of the effort to ensure students have supplies on their first day of school. The YMCA is doing its part by waiving the activation fee for new members if the new member brings in a full bag of school supplies. Blanshan notes that he is happy to be part of this great initiative.
For a full list of supplies, you can visit https://taylorvilledailynews.com/, The Backpack Drive story.
Suzy Traughber, Darin Buttz, and Bruce Blanshan appeared on the WTIM Morning Show as guests.
