Back To School Supply Drive

Nassau County Legisltaor

Mazi Melesa Pilip (District 10) is hosting a Back to School Supply Drive with support of the Fountain of Kindness, open now through Tuesday, Aug. 22.

Fountain of Kindness will distribute the donations to all students who are in need.

Donation locations include Great Neck House (14 Arrandale Ave.), Parkwood Sports Complex (65 Arrandale Ave.), the Manhasset Public

Library (30 Onderdonk Ave.), the Great Neck Library (Main Building, 159 Bayview Ave.) and the Great Neck Library (Station Branch, 26 Great Neck Rd.)

New and unused items are accepted. Some in-need items include:

• 5 composition notebook wide

• 5 composition notebook regular

• Loose leaf paper

• Marble notebooks

• Number 2 pencils

• Markers

• Crayons

• Colored pencils

• Glue sticks

• Elmers glue

• Index cards

•Sticky notes

• Erasers

• Pencil sharpeners

• Supply box holder

• Book bags

About Fountain of Kindness: Started within our own Great Neck Community, with a vision to spread kindness and encourage others to do so as well. We are a diverse group of individuals from many different communities who are united in our goal of spreading kindness throughout the Jewish community and beyond. From a small group of volunteers we have grown to a team of over 500 interested and active participants. Through word of mouth we have assisted families with their needs during difficult times. This rapid growth and flood of interest confirmed to us that it was time to formalize our team. On 4/16/18, Fountain of Kindness was formed so that we can be ready at any time to address the needs of our rapidly growing Jewish community.

—Information compiled from the Great Neck Library website (greatnecklibrary.org) and the Fountain of Kindess website (fountainofkindness.org)