Chester. Kiwanis Club prepares ‘Welcome to Kindergarten’ backpacks
| 25 Aug 2020 | 03:42
Cindy O'Connor, Sandra Nagler and Sue Bahren are ready to deliver welcome bags for all kindergarten students attending Chester Elementary School. Photos provided by the Chester Kiwanis Club.
A welcome bag for each kindergartener attending Chester School District this year will contain masks attached to lanyards. That will allow students to just the mask release from their faces when necessary so that the mask won’t be lost or fall on the floor.
This is the Kiwanis Club’s message to incoming Chester kindergarten students.
Welcome to the Class of 2033.
Members of the Kiwanis Club of Chester Community Outreach Committee - Cindy O’Connor, Sandra Nagler and Sue Bahren - met on Sunday, Aug. 23, to assemble the club’s yearly “Welcome to Kindergarten” backpack bags.
These backpack bags will be presented to the 50+ kindergarten students starting school at Chester Elementary next month.
Outreach Committee members said they believe it was very important to present these bags, as they have done in years past, especially when there is so much to be dealt with at school this year because of the pandemic.
New this year, the club provided masks for each of the students as well. The masks are attached to lanyards that students can just release from their faces when necessary so that the mask won’t be lost or fall on the floor.
- Frances Ruth Harris