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Patch School Supply Drive a Success

Patch readers donated school supplies at the Joliet Slammers game on Friday night.

A reader who could not make it to the Joliet Slammer game on Friday night when Patch was contacted us with an offer. She had 288 rulers to donate. The reader had been a teacher in a local private school that had closed and had come across some supplies and wanted to donate them.

In addition, at the game Patch collected a number of donations that will go to on its . Here is what we collected:

  • 4 regular and 1 jumbo glue stick(s)
  • 11 boxes of 24 crayons
  • 2 backpacks
  • 13 notebooks
  • 15 packets of loose leaf paper
  • 3 folders
  • 1 binder
  • 8 bookcovers
  • 5 packages of colored pencils
  • 5 packages of index cards
  • 1 compass
  • 1 protractor

We want to thank all of our readers for their donations.


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