{"id":259226,"date":"2026-08-04T22:25:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T22:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259226\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T22:25:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T22:25:51","slug":"back-to-school-supply-collection-drives-in-full-swing-just-weeks-away-from-students-returning-to-classes-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259226\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to school supply collection drives in full swing just weeks away from students returning to classes | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"

BERKS COUNTY, Pa. – In just a few short weeks, kids will be heading back to school. That means it’s time for parents to start thinking about school supplies.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Several back-to-school collection drives are happening in Berks County right now.<\/p>\n

“We’re really just looking for any school supplies; everything from backpacks and lunch boxes to pencils, erasers, pens, any art supplies,” says Angela Cremer, VP of Marketing and Communications for Fleetwood Bank.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She says the bank has participated in this community school supply collection event started by a stay-at-home mom for the last four years.<\/p>\n

“Our vision is really to serve as a catalyst to help the community that we live and work in,” says Cremer. “This is a prime example of us being able to partner with local businesses, our employees and our customers and just make a difference so every kid in Berks County can start school with the supplies they need.”<\/p>\n

They will be holding a back-to-school drive event at their Blandon location Tuesday followed by a distribution event the following weekend. Back To School Bash<\/a><\/p>\n

Everlong Records in Hamburg is also collecting school supplies for children and they will distribute them August 15th and a back-to-school bash at the store. Any supplies left over will be donated to Hamburg schools.<\/p>\n

In Reading, Elvin Morales and his co-organizer Annabelle Torres, are hosting a back-to-school supply event at Glenside Elementary for the first time.<\/p>\n

“We’re trying to give out a minimum of 100 backpacks with supplies. We have a couple of raffles, just to be part of the community, to give back and have these students start the school year strong,” says Morales.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That event will be held Saturday, August 8th from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

“I want it to grow every single year,” says Morales. “Next year I want it to be bigger than this year and then years to come I want it to be an even bigger event.”<\/p>\n

A number of other organizations and individuals are also holding school supply events.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKS COUNTY, Pa. – In just a few short weeks, kids will be heading back to school. That…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[44072,65372,349,105980,524,15868,227,128,130,129,60355,3315,4345],"class_list":["post-259226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-back-to-school","tag-backpacks","tag-berks-county","tag-collection-drive","tag-community","tag-donation","tag-education","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-school-supplies","tag-students","tag-volunteers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}