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CT COMM is accepting donations for the Urbana City School Backpack Program for the eighth year.

Beginning today, CT COMM will collect non-perishable, kid-friendly items for the Urbana City Schools Backpack Program. Anyone who wishes to donate may bring donations to the CT COMM lobby located at 126 Scioto St., in Urbana during regular business hours, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday.

After organizing all of the items, CT COMM representatives will deliver all food items to the Caring Kitchen the week of Sept. 30, 2024 to be distributed via the Urbana City Schools Backpack Program.

The Backpack Program ensures that children throughout our community have access to food outside of traditional school hours – mostly over weekends and school holidays, but sometimes after school or before school events, as well.

The Caring Kitchen helps coordinate getting food and backpacks together for the Urbana City Schools.

CT COMM, inspired by the Caring Kitchen’s commitment to our school-aged friends, has held a nonperishable food drive over the last 7 years to benefit the program – every year has yielded well over 200 pounds of backpack-friendly foods. Just think – that’s at least 1,400 pounds of food helping children in our community in the last seven years.

Many single-serve items are easy to pack into backpacks: individual cereal boxes, pudding, applesauce, fruit or veggie cups, Pop Tarts, breakfast bars, granola bars, among others. Single-serve microwaveable items are also great for lunch and dinner options: macaroni and cheese, ravioli, soups, chicken and noodle and/or beef and noodle dinners.

For CT COMM donation and/or service questions, please feel free to call 937-653-4000, option 0 to reach customer service.

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