Healthy Connections, Incorporated’s annual Back-to-School Bash is set for Thursday, July 30. The annual event provides fun and much needed school supplies to hundreds of Polk County children each year. HCI will pass out free backpacks and school supplies for children school ages K-12. HCI said that all children must be accompanied by an adult.
Tyson recently donated $200.00 to help fund the Back to School Bash. This year, Healthy Connections hopes to give away school supplies to 400 children.
Pictured from left to right are: Healthy Connections’ Gretchen Cannon, Barbara Klutts, Tyson Foods’ Kevin Randolph, Felita Dearing, and Healthy Connections’ Doreen Tapley.
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