Backpack drive at Top Food & Drug

TOP Food & Drug stores in Kent and elsewhere are starting a drive July 10 to collect backpacks filled with school supplies for local children in need. Customers may purchase the specially designated backpacks.

  • BY Wire Service
  • Saturday, July 10, 2010 12:02am
  • Business

TOP Food & Drug stores in Kent and elsewhere are starting a drive July 10 to collect backpacks filled with school supplies for local children in need. Customers may purchase the specially designated backpacks.

TOP Food stores already have filled the backpacks with a variety of school supplies that they are donating. The filled backpacks will be given to local schools and organizations, including Treehouse, for distribution to children in need. The drive will continue until the stores run out of the backpacks.

Top Foods in Kent is located at 26015 104th Ave. S.E.


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