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The 5th Annual Kids Day event to benefit needy children in our community is coming up on Tuesday, September 9th.  We are busy at Windermere helping to gather donations and getting ready for our big day of selling newspapers!

Kids Day is a partnership between the Tri-City Herald and Catholic Family & Child Service.  Through special edition newspaper sales and donations, we raise funds to benefit programs for fragile youth in Benton and Franklin Counties.

On Kids Day, volunteers wearing red t-shirts will be hawking a special Kids Day edition of the Tri-City Herald for $1 each on street corners all over the area.  This special edition highlights prevention and intervention efforts in the Tri-Cities and helps pay for programs that help local children and families of all faiths and cultures.  This year the Kids Day event will also feature an additional 5,000 copies of the Newspapers in Spanish we hope this will reach a new group of people within our community who are ready to reach out and support our event!  Windermere Tri-Cities is excited to help support the Kids Day event and participates in this event yearly with numerous other community partners.  We at Windermere are excited to offer our support in the form of donations and volunteers on the day of the event and we hope to see you all on September 9th.  Just look for the volunteers selling the newspapers around the Tri-Cities, they will be wearing red t-shirts on the day of the event.

For more information please call Catholic Family & Child Service at 509.946.4645 or log on to www.kidsdaytricities.com

 
 
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School Supply Collection Program…

Windermere Tri-Cities is proud to participate in the 14th Annual SHAKE project.  Seniors Helping All Kids’ Education, better known as SHAKE, has proven to be a successful intergenerational project for our local communities to help students, families, and teachers.  This project is headed up by The Benton Franklin Volunteer Center and Windermere Tri-Cities is excited to help in any way we can by housing donation boxes in both our Richland and Kennewick offices!

Every year, the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) collects school supplies which are then delivered to schools in Benton and Franklin counties.  The purpose of this project is to help children who cannot afford to purchase their own school supplies.  Without the necessary tools, a child cannot succeed in school.  This project not only helps school children, but it also helps their families and their teachers who no longer feel obligated to purchase supplies with their own money.

It you are interested in donating supplies please see the list below and bring them to one of our Windermere office locations to help fill the boxes!  If you have any questions at all please contact SHAKE at 509.582.0631.

Windermere Tri-Cities is committed to making our community a better place to live and it is participation in these sorts of projects that can reach out and help those who need it most.  Our Windermere team knows the importance of educating our youth and we are proud to partner with a program that makes sure they have all the needed tools!

Supplies Needed:

  • 3-ring binders
  • Spiral notebooks
  • Wide ruled notebook paper
  • College-ruled paper
  • Colored markers
  • Colored pencils
  • Pencils
  • Pens
  • Scissors
  • Crayons
  • Erasers
  • Rulers
  • Glue
  • Pocket folders
  • School boxes
  • Backpacks

Benton Franklin Volunteer Center