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Dollar Tree Donates a School Supply Kit to Every Loomis Student

Broomall's Dollar Tree store donated 525 school supply kits to every student at Loomis Elementary School as well as 200 to the Main Street School in the Chester Upland School District.

BROOMALL–The Broomall store in the Lawrence Park Shopping Center chose as its school supply partner for their corporate-wide outreach project.

Dollar Tree selected one store per school district in the United States to participate. At these 340 stores, patrons were asked to donate $5 to purchase a school supply kit, which included a notebook, pencils, markers, scissors and an eraser.

As a result of the community's generosity, the store donated 525 supply kits in one month, the most collected across the country. Dollar Tree visited Loomis and gave each child a bag of school supplies. In addition, 200 bags were shared with the Main Street School (Pre-K to eighth grade school) in the Chester Upland School District.

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Loomis' fifth-grade class has also started their year with a service project to collect more school supplies to be added to the donation to Main Street School. They collected boxes full of items that included book bags, folders, pens, filler paper, crayons highlighters and more. All the school supplies were presented to Main Street at a Citizenship and Service assembly.During the assembly, Loomis fifth-grade student Christian Jeter wrote and recited this poem during the assembly:

Why We Care

We help to share

We help cause we care

We love to help

And each other

After 9-11 people were scared

Some people thought they should be there

We could not be there, so we help this school

This really shows that Loomis does rule!

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