Donations of supplies to be accepted through Aug. 2
With Sarasota students scheduled to return to classes on Aug. 12, the Sarasota Police Department, in partnership with the Sarasota City YMCA, “wants to ‘Pack the Patrol Car’ with new school supplies for the upcoming school year,” the Police Department has announced.
This will be the seventh consecutive year for the initiative, a news release points out.
The Police Department began accepting school supplies on July 17 and will continue to do so through Friday, Aug. 2, the release adds.
New school supplies may be dropped off at the following locations or purchased online, the release notes:
- Sarasota Police Department, located at 2099 Adams Lane in downtown Sarasota (6 a.m. to 6 p.m.).
- Sarasota City YMCA, located at 1075 S. Euclid Ave. in Sarasota (see website for hours).
- Online through Amazon at https://tinyurl.com/mvk74xtmor by scanning the QR code in this article.
At the conclusion of the Pack the Patrol Car initiative, the release says, members of the Sarasota Police Department will provide the school supplies to students throughout the community before classes begin on Aug. 12.
“The Sarasota Police Department is accepting new school supplies for all ages and grade levels, including backpacks, pencils, pens, highlighters, boxes of Kleenex, small bottles of hand sanitizer, folders, notebooks, glue, markers, crayons, erasers, and notebook paper,” the release notes, with emphasis. Members of the Sarasota Police Department will break down all donations by grade level before donating them to students, it adds.