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Monaco Ford Holding Glastonbury Clothing Drive to Help Style Kids for Back-to-School

The Glastonbury car dealership will be teaming up with Style Saves to collect clothes for local children.

Everyone has clothes in their closets that they don’t need, and kids are no exception.

It may be summer, but now may be the perfect time to do a little early fall cleaning and clean out all those extra clothes from your kids’ closets.

And Monaco Ford something you can do with them.

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Monaco Ford in Glastonbuy is hosting a clothing drive to help Style Saves, who will be styling local kids for back-to-school.

The event will take place on Aug. 24 at Casona, 681 Wethersfield Ave., Hartford. Style Saves will be styling 60 students from the Boys & Girls Clubs and The Village for back-to-school.

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Monaco Ford will be accepting need new and gently used clothes, shoes, and accessories for students ages 6-18. If you have any of these items available, you can bring them by the dealership – 767 New London Turnpike, Glastonbury. Items will be accepted any time before Aug. 24.

Style Saves, based in Florida, raises funds to allocate to underprivileged students in the South Florida area. And Monaco Ford has partnered with the organization to help youngsters in Glastonbury.

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