WISCASSET

A group is teaming up to provide new notebooks, pencils, markers and glue to Wiscasset, Westport and Alna schoolchildren.

Valerie Martin St. Pierre’s School Supplies for Children, a nonprofit, is dovetailing efforts with Feed Our Scholars’ backpack initiative to seek donations toward filling those backpacks with more than food. They want to provide items to kick off the new school year, the new weekend food program, and the tools to help children better learn and succeed.

Crayons, markers, pencils, notebooks, rulers, glue sticks and school scissors are items good for the primary school set. Add in calculators, dictionaries, thesauruses, assignment books, three-ring binders, page dividers, onesubject notebooks and pens for the middle and high schoolers.

And, while Feed Our Scholars has many backpacks, donations of more are welcome.

Feed Our Scholars is able to support food packets for 40 students, but there are many more at all three schools who could use supplies to help them with their studies and assignments.

Valerie Martin St. Pierre is committed to supplying each school with a container of items from which any child can choose.

To help, look for the “School Supplies for Children” boxes to drop donations at Ames Supply, Wiscasset Town Hall, Mike’s Log Cabin, Westport Town Hall or St. Philip’s Church Hall.

If donating money for supplies is preferred, a check can be made out to either School Supplies for Children, or to Feed Our Scholars, with “school supplies” in the memo line. Send checks to St. Philip’s, 12 Hodge St., Wiscasset, or The First, c/o School Supplies for Children, 39 Gardner Road, Wiscasset.

All donations of supplies or money for purchase of supplies are tax deductible through St. Philip’s Church Feed Our Scholars’ exemption.