Blessings in a Backpack gets some help
A $1,250 donation from Kamatsu Corp. to Blessings in a Backpack will help the nonprofit do more good in the Canon-McMillan School District. Blessings in a Backpack provides free food – items like granola, canned soup and ramen — for the weekend to children who qualify. This is the fifth year the nonprofit has partnered with the district. A crew from Kamatsu stopped by South Central Elementary School to drop off the check and to help package the food the children would take home that week. Pictured, from left, are South Central Elementary Principal Michelle Tomicek, Leslie Gaines of Komatsu Mining, Louise Charmichael of Blessings in a Backpack and Shannon Balch, principal and federal programs coordinator at South Central Elementary.