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Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
Hazel Point Gives Back
Linn-Mar intermediate school hosting first ‘giving back’ service project
MARION -- Hazel Point Intermediate School in the Linn-Mar Community School District is launching its first “giving back” service project.
The school is collecting personal hygiene items and new and gently used stuffed animals to be donated to Waypoint Services in Cedar Rapids. Waypoint is a nonprofit offering services and resources for people experiencing homelessness, poverty, or violence or needing access to quality, affordable child care.
Students will bring their donations to the school’s gym before classes start in the morning. Donations are being collected before Thanksgiving. Hazel Point is one of two new intermediate schools in Linn-Mar that opened in the fall of 2020.
Donations will be kept track of by home room teachers, and the class with the most donations will receive a free pizza and soda party courtesy of Hazel Point Principal Chad Buchholz.
Students at Hazel Point have big hearts and are learning about the importance of giving, especially around the holidays.
The following items are being collected:
- Face wash
- Bath bombs
- Bath toys
- Body soap
- Body wash
- Bubble bath
- Mouth wash
- Shampoo
- Conditioner
- First Aid kits
- Lotion
- Band-aids
- Dental floss
- Hand soap
- Hand Sanitizer
- Kleenex
- Nail clippers
- Scrunchies
- Shaving cream
- Baby wipes
- Q-tips
- Toothpaste
- Paper towels
- Toilet paper
- New or gently used stuffed animals
Comments: (319) 398-8411; grace.king@thegazette.com
Waypoint in downtown Cedar Rapids, shown in February 2020, offers at least six programs under its housing services umbrella, to address homelessness, homeless prevention, and shelter for people facing economic crises. The need for such programs has jumped from serving about 3,000 people to 13,000 people in the last fiscal year, due in part to the pandemic, derecho and inflation . (The Gazette)
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