FLORENCE – Just as predicted, there was a great turnout Saturday morning at Southwire’s 2nd Annual School Supplies Giveaway. Taressa Foster and Hannah Briggs and the Southwire employee who gave their time helped a few hundred families throughout The Shoals ease up a little bit on school expenses.
Last year, they ran out of of the 750 bags of pencils, paper and various other items. They weren’t going to run out this time. This time Southwire employees put together a thousand kits.
But the event wasn’t just a mundane day of standing in line for a bag of school goodies. No siree… There was face-painting… Bouncy-house… Fire Department smoke-house… Vision-checks, and a few other hyphenated-name things for the kids to have fun with.
They even beat the rain!
Southwire wanted us to ensure that everybody knows how important their sponsore were for the success of the Back To School Supplies Giveaway. The event would not have been possible without them.Here is a list of the companies who made contributions of time, merchandise, displays and activity setups.
Walmart – MidSouth Vending – M&I – Friendly Flower Shop – RockTenn – Sonoco – Dill Engineering – Ray’s Machine Shop – Alabama Electric Motor Service – Printers & Stationers – Dixie Signs – MG Automation – Burger King – The Courier Journal – The TimesDaily – The Quad-Cities Daily
The Quad-Cities Daily was on hand for the Event Photos. We present them here. They are nice and big so that you can copy them and make a nice print to remember the evening. Just remember that these photos are for your PERSONAL, NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY.
