Another successful Stuff The Bus Event is over. Star Group Veterans Helping Veterans, Walmart Copperas Cove & Copperas Cove ISD present “2019 Stuff The Bus” Fundraiser to help those CCISD Students in need of school supplies.
SGVHV thanks all of the volunteers who participated in this Event. From the Music to serving free food to stuffing the Bus with school supplies, your work was truly appreciated.
As Copperas Cove students prepare for the opening of school, the annual Stuff The Bus Event to gather school supplies for students in need was underway in Copperas Cove.
The 5th-annual Stuff the Bus school supply drive kicked off Friday, August 9th with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Copperas Cove Walmart. Copperas Cove Mayor Bradi Diaz joined Copperas Cove Independent School District Deputy Superintendent Rick Kirkpatrick to cut the ribbon in front of a blue CCISD bus. They were joined by Copperas Cove City Manager Ryan Haverlah, dozens of Walmart employees, members of Star Group-Veterans Helping Veterans, Copperas Cove ISD cheerleaders, school mascots and others to help get the event underway.
”This jump starts a lot of our students, who can’t necessarily afford (or) don’t have the means to get the school supplies that they need for the first day of school,” Mr. Kirkpatrick said after the ribbon-cutting. It alleviates a lot of stress on our students and parents as well.
After the ribbon cutting, the first load of supplies was loaded into the bus. Members of the Copperas Cove Five Hills royalty formed a line and passed bags of supplies into the bus. The royalty will take turns manning the bus during the weekend, helping to load, count and organize the donated supplies.
Each donation is carefully scanned into a Walmart price code device, allowing organizers to keep continuous track of the dollar value of the donations they receive.
Last year, the event collected over $30,000 worth of school supplies.
After the first shopping cart of donated goods was unloaded, Walmart employees began taking boxes of school supplies from a pallet and moving them into the bus. The initial donations are just the start of what the district hopes will fill the bus by 5 p.m. Sunday.
Wendy Sledd of CCISD said on Monday they will be unstuffing the bus as we break it out to schools. Each school has provided a wish list of things they really, really need. We break that out based on what the needs are for each school.
The Communities in Schools representatives will come and pick those supplies up on Monday afternoon ... (and) take them back to the schools to be dispersed.
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