HOGS benefit ride Backpack for Kids – photos

Jamestown  (CSi)  Community Action Region VI in Jamestown Backpacks for Kids Program, ensures any child can receive a backpack to supplement their diets over the weekend.

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To help with the project, the Jamestown HOGS Chapter 1955 held a Bike for Kids event on Sunday, July 26.  Riders traveled to Carrington, Cooperstown and Courtenay before returning to Jamestown.

Food Pantry Coordinator Sarah Oberlander says the program went through roughly 40 to 50 backpacks in their first year of the program and has been growing.

The program is offered at Louis L’Amour, Roosevelt, Lincoln and Washington elementary schools. A letter is sent to families in those schools in mid-September and backpack distribution starts in October.

Oberlander said the program costs about $10,000 per school per year.

Oberlander says it costs roughly $15 to pack every backpack that’s given out through the anonymous program.  For more details call 701-252-1821.

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