A student from North High is putting together a school supplies drive, and needs the community to lend a helping hand at upcoming Musketeers games in November.
Legend Campbell is a junior working with the Sioux City Public Schools Foundation. He has created the “Hockey and Helping Hands” supply drive.
Campbell is working to stock at least three Community Eligibility Provision elementary schools.
Those schools are designated as such because they have such a high percentage of families eligible for free and reduced meals that they serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to all enrolled students without collecting household applications.
This is an indicator that these schools could use the school supplies the most.
Supplies he is collecting are thin dry-erase markers, regular markers, folders, crayons, notebooks, and pens, something that gets used up very quickly in the middle of the school year.
“I really just want to give back to the community and kind of the people that need it the most,” Campbell said. “This is like truly just one less thing that parents should have to worry about. Nobody wants to worry about school supplies over Christmas break, and like right before the holidays.”
As a student, he knows firsthand when it’s time to restock on some of the essential school supplies.
He said the drive started as just a supply drive that was going to be collected in the parking lot. He reached out to Karen Harrison, the director of development for the Public Schools Foundation, on how he could make a bigger impact, who connected him with Travis Morgan with the Sioux City Musketeers, growing it into what it is now.
He said if he can help just one student or one classroom, the hard work is worth it.
This is a partnership with the Sioux City Musketeers.
There’s a drive-through drop-off set up at the Tyson Events Center in Sioux City on Saturday, Nov. 8, from 8 a.m. to noon.
Campbell and other volunteers will be there to collect the supplies right from your car.
The next opportunity is at the Musketeers game on both Saturday, Nov. 8, and Sunday, Nov. 9.
Look for collection tables near the entrances of the Tyson Events Center before the puck drops at the home games.
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Interested in learning more about how you can help? Visit our Supply Drive site.