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It or not. The school year is right around the corner and news 12 wants to make sure that students are ready for it. Our Caroline Flynn is out a backpack giveaway over at North, a high school. A great day. Great weather. What work could you ask for Caroline? It really is so perfect. Tower. So great to be helping so many in the community get ready for the all important first day of back to school. And I got to give a shout out to our team here who has been out here making sure everyone is ready. Yes, go to. I love it. Some familiar faces for sure. Awesome. And there has been so much more for the kids and their families to be able to walk away with here from everything like haircuts back to school, haircuts. How cool is that to essentials like notebooks and pencils, paper even at ice pops because many people from my jacket, but it was warm here today. I want to bring in right now. One of the teachers from the North Babylon school district, this is Jo Ellen, MS and Jo Ellen is someone who is very involved in the school district and was even out here today volunteering because, you know, as a parent and a teacher, how important it is to be able to thrive on that first day. Yeah. It's really the first day sets the tone for the whole rest of the year. So, any kids that are walking and feeling less confident because they don't have the same basic needs that their friends do. It's going to make an impact on them on the first day. And we don't want that. We want their minds to be clear and for them to see their friends again and get down to learning again and what's really important. So we try to take care of their basic needs to help make that happen for them. And the great thing was any family could come out here today from any background, even any area. But I mean, this is something that you guys do in the North Babylon school district. Sometimes you got to bring like 100 something pencils and maybe not every family is able to do that and this is just a great way to make it easier. Yeah, we have one of our former students, Kayla has Kayla's helping hands. They set up a booth today. They gave out crayons and folders and pencils and pens to anybody who needed. We have neighbors supporting neighbors, Babylon was here giving out toothbrushes and socks and even think of that so important. We, you know, when um couple of years ago, when deputy superintendent Kim Skillen started with the hygiene products for kids. I never, that never occurred to me. You know, we had started a clothing drive five years ago to get some school outfits to some kids in need. But when she came on with the hygiene products, it really made a big difference, jo and all so important. We're so glad you guys were out here. We had news 12 years, so many great people, Tara, you were out here and you could also say first hand, what a big difference this is making back to you in the.

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Whole year is almost here and we wanna make sure you and your Children are ready. Our Caroline Flynn lent a hand at News twelve's backpack giveaway today at North Babylon High School. 12 is out North Babylon today giving backpacks away for back to school. Hey, Sean, you want this one? Here you go. Have a good birthday. And that wasn't all that was happening outside of North Babylon High School to get families ready. It was like trick or treating. But for back to school supplies like pencils and notebooks, it makes pockets, you know, it gets the kids up and going to school and community groups and businesses set up booths to give out essentials to Long Island families that came out and so did student and teacher volunteers from the district. I'm already overwhelmed right now, like thinking about back to school and everything. So it's nice that they're giving it out. Everything is so expensive. Nowadays, we don't need the stress of the economy falling on our students. And an event like this really helps to take that away from them. You can't forget this part of back to school prep. Kids were given free haircuts today too. In a mobile salon. It was truly a one stop shop in North Babylon. I'm Caroline Flynn for New Long Island.

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