Group Donates Book Bags to 100 Students
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A book bag is a simple thing, but until he got one this week, 10-year-old Eric Ruiz often felt left out and different at school. “Everybody had a backpack and I didn’t,” he said.
Not anymore.
Eric was one of 100 fifth-graders at Bassett Street Elementary School in Van Nuys who received free personalized book bags from the Assistance League of the San Fernando Valley.
Inside the black bags, each of the students found a notebook, a glue stick, a ruler, folders, pens and pencils. Each child also received a health kit--a plastic bag holding a shampoo bottle, a toothbrush and toothpaste, soap, a comb and a brush.
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