Commit a Good Deed: Reach into Your Wallet, Help Low-Income Kids with Back-to-School Supplies

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Here’s a great chance to help someone else while you’re shopping for back-to-school supplies. Pick up extra backpacks, notebooks, folders,pens, Crayons, glue, scissors – anything that’s on the school district’s supply lists – and help low-income kids in he West Des Moines Community School District get off to a better start.

Make sure you’re donating items that students need. Check here for school supply lists at the district’s different schools.

The drive continues through Aug. 9. Volunteers will begin distributing the supplies Aug. 12.

Here’s how to give:

Drop off supplies at West Des Moines Human Services,318 Fifth St., between 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Fill collection boxes at the West Des Moines Public Library, 4000 Mills Civic Parkway.

Gently used children’s clothing and clothing are also needed. Better yet, consider a monetary donation or gift cards.

Questions: Contact coordinator Lynette Springer at (515) 222-3665 or lynette.springer@wdm.iowa.gov.

Now, from the guilty pleasure of eavesdropping on social media:

Seen on Twitter from Olymic gold medal gymnast Gabrielle Douglas (@gabrielledoug): “Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.”

Seen on Facebook from our friends at Corazon Coffee Roasters in Valley Junction: “Can't make it down to Corazon? Our coffee is available for sale at New City Market, Gateway Market, Campbell's Nutrition and through the Iowa Food Coop. Catch up on Corazon Coffee Roasters with this video: You’ll ‘Heart’ this Coffee Roaster with a Social Conscience

Seen on Craigslist: A 20-year-old woman is looking for a mentor as she explores the Wicca faith. Serious replies only, she says. “If there is anyone out there who could help me … or take me under their wing, It would be very helpful.”

Whatever you do today in West Des Moines, make it fun.