Volunteers Needed For United Way’s “Stuff-a-Bus With School Supplies”

The United Way of Otero County, in partnership with Wal-Mart Supercenter and Stone Bus Company, will sponsor the 2^nd Annual “Stuff-a-Bus…With School Supplies” on August 4-6, 2006, in conjunction with the New Mexico “Back-To-School Tax Holiday”. Volunteers are needed to collect supplies from 10am-7pm Friday, August 4^th – Sunday, August 6^th.

Last year literally thousands of school supplies were collected and distributed to 21 schools throughout Otero County, including Holloman, Alamogordo, LaLuz, Tularosa, & Cloudcroft (both public & private).

A lot of children are lucky to come to school with a pencil, let alone the other needed supplies, said Shelley Bailey, Executive Director of the United Way of Otero County. In the past a lot of teachers buy those extra supplies out of their own pockets. This is a wonderful community project to be involved with and we were able to help many children (all ages) start school with a lot of the necessities. In 2005, in addition to residents dropping off school supplies, some dropped off money--$1028.00 worth. With the money, we simply bought more school supplies. We literally "Stuffed the Bus”, Bailey said.

If you would like to volunteer with this very worthwhile project or would like more information, please call the United Way of Otero County at 437-8400 or stop by at 1601 10^th Street, Suite-B.

We look forward to helping the children in our community.