Contact: Tammy Lane • First Posted: Wednesday, July 13, 2011

The YMCA of Central Kentucky, in collaboration with nearly two dozen local neighborhoods, is hosting the sixth annual Ready, Set, Go! Lexington Neighborhood Back-to-School Rallies. The events on Saturday Aug. 6 will provide 8,000 elementary, middle and high school students with free backpacks and school supplies.

Each neighborhood site will distribute supplies for all grade levels and provide activities, resource booths, entertainment, food, speakers and fun!

Details and locations

Registration for the free supplies will run from 9 to 11 a.m. at each location, and backpacks will be distributed at noon. Students must be with a parent or guardian in order to receive a kit.

Kentucky Utilities has contributed the backpacks, with the YMCA and multiple community partners donating the contents. Students will receive these items:

• Primary kit (K-grade 2) -- washable markers (set of 8), crayons (24 count), pocket folders, blunt-tip scissors, composition notebook, pencil top erasers, No. 2 pencils and glue sticks
• Elementary kit (grades 3-5) -- No. 2 pencils, crayons (24 count), washable markers (set of 8), scissors, pocket folders, composition notebook, pencil top erasers, 1-inch binder and dividers with tabs for three-ring binder
• Middle/high school kit -- No. 2 pencils, medium point blue pen, medium point black pen, highlighter with clip, pocket folders, spiral notebooks, 1-inch binder and dividers with tabs for three-ring binder

For more information, call the United Way at 2-1-1 or LexCall at 3-1-1. 

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