Last week, Gosling welcomed Friends of Reston Regional Library and E4E Essentials for Education to a drive-through in front of South Lakes High School. There, those with heightened needs could get items in just “one-stop.” Gosling and Andy Sigle of Reston, part of the leadership team that launched the pantry in 2017 for students eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunches, stood ready.
Vehicles line up for the food, book and desk/chair distribution at South Lakes High School
According to the Reston Connection, "A large group of volunteers from the Friends of Reston Regional Library (FRRL) stood near the food distribution, ready to continue their Book Bites project distribution. Eileen Evon, Community Outreach Chair for FRRL, organized the voluntes with military precision to set up the tables and load them with bags of new books bundled by grade level. “None on the ground,” Evon called out."
As per Reston Connection, "Inspired by other organizations across the country that had provided books in conjunction with school meal programs, volunteers for the FRRL Book Bites project were in the midst of their distribution of nearly $15,000 worth of new books to children at four Reston public schools. Volunteers fanned out and asked drivers the ages of children in their families, called them out, and other volunteers passed the appropriate bags forward, which the volunteers handed through car windows."
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