School 79 gets back to school boost

We had the priviledge of delivering about 300 of the backpacks from Huntington Bank’s donation to the kids at Carl Wilde Elementary/IPS 79. Principal Joyce Akridge was delighted to meet us outside her school as we started unloading box after box of backpacks. She shared with us that all of her nearly 700 students qualify for the free breakfast and lunch program because their family’s incomes fall below the poverty level. Many of her students started the first day of the year without even a pencil. Read more