Fayette County: Back-to-school events provide supplies to kids

The YMCA of Central Kentucky, in collaboration with 20 neighborhoods, is hosting the sixth annual Ready, Set, Go! Lexington Neighborhood Back-to-School Rallies. They will be Saturday, Aug. 6, and 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 offer activities, resource booths, food, speakers and entertainment.

Registration for the free supplies be 9 to 11 a.m. at each location, and backpacks will be distributed at noon. Students must be with a parent or guardian to receive supplies. All 8,000 backpacks are provided by the parent company of Kentucky Utilities.

The neighborhoods or rally sites include:

■ First Baptist Church, Bracktown, 3016 Bracktown Road.

■ Cardinal Valley, 2077 Cambridge Drive.

■ Carver Neighborhood Center, 522 Patterson Street.

■ Castlewood Park, 201 Castlewood Drive.

■ Coolavin Park, 550 West Sixth Street.

■ Duncan Park, 530 North Limestone.

■ Eastland Church of God, 2598 Liberty Road.

■ Gainesway, 3460 Milano Drive.

■ Gardenside Christian Church, 940 Holly Springs Drive.

■ Douglass Park, 726 Georgetown Street.

■ Imani Missionary Baptist Church, 1555 Georgetown Street.

■ Rock/LaRoca United Methodist Church, 1015 North Limestone.

■ Temple of Prayer, 549 Parkside Drive.

■ Pralltown, 190 Lou Johnson Way.

■ Radcliffe Marlboro Park, 561 Benton Road.

■ Spiegle Heights Park, 424 Spiegle Street.

■ William Wells Brown Community Center, 548 East Fifth Street.

■ Russell Cave Church of Christ, 1841 McCullough Drive

■ Woodhill, 457 Larkwood Drive.

Donations are needed. Drop off any of the following items at the High Street YMCA by Aug. 2: washable markers (set of 8), crayons (24 count), pocket folders, blunt-tip or regular scissors, composition notebook, pencil-top erasers, No. 2 pencils, glue sticks, composition notebooks, 1-inch binders and dividers with tabs for three-ring binders, medium point blue and black pens, highlighters with clips, and spiral notebooks.

For more information, call the United Way at 211 or LexCall at 311 or Nicola Fleming at (859) 226-0393.

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