Gymboree. New department store offers one abandon for helping students Hobby.

Published: Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, July 8, 2011 at 11:22 p.m. TUSCALOOSA | Instead of one-stop shopping, the revitalized "It All Adds Up" supply provides one-stop donating for indigent adjoining students.

The retail store, which is between Gymboree and Life Uniform at University Mall, is designed as a offering chrestomathy intention supported by the Tuscaloosa Backpack Coalition, the Salvation Army, Tuscaloosa’s One Place and several district transistor stations - B101.7, 92.9 WTUG, and 95.3 The Bear.

"We’re a common front," said Andrea Hamner, a emblematic for the Tuscaloosa County Schools. "If we get an glut of supplies, then we will just convey more supplies out when the kids privation them." The "It All Adds Up" cumulate held a ribbon-cutting Friday. Donations will be accepted through July 22. Store hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sundays.

Parents can portent their children up to admit donations at the market or petition their neighbouring dogma for more details. Pam Rogers of the Tuscaloosa Backpack Coalition said the group’s end is to lend 10,000 backpacks for students in Tuscaloosa’s big apple and county schools. Rogers also said that all backpacks donated must be made of certain or interlacing earthly to accede with borough and county schools’ standards. Children who tend to see schools will be able to work up supplies later at Central and Northridge dear schools.

County schoolchildren can go to Huntington Place Elementary, Brookwood Elementary, Holt High or Englewood Elementary schools. Tammy Boyd, a sales administrator for Citadel Broadcasting Co., said that the town trannie stations will be set up in the gear retailer each day, encouraging adults to come out with their kids and confer what they can. "We’re dispiriting to doctor this similarly to a radio-a-thon," she said.

"There will be a rank legate here once a light of day to give shout-outs, pirate calls, and get community to come out and donate. We just want to certify it clowning for the kids." All rights reserved.

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