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| Posted: 15 Oct 2010 09:49 AM PDT Friday, October 15, 2010 By JoAnn Boatwright The Hillsboro Argus The Argus It's 2 p.m. on a Tuesday and the line snakes down the hall, out the door and nearly around the corner of the portable building which houses Operation School Bell in Hillsboro. Fidgety children wait for their turn to "shop" the shelves and hangers stocked with crisp new clothes  This is only Operation School Bell's third day of the 2010-11 school year and, by the time volunteers have helped their last "customers" at around 7 p.m., they will have outfitted more than 70 children with back-to-school clothes. Operation School Bell is a nation-wide program in 122 communities and operated by Assistance League chapters, which raise all of the money to fund the program. Besides grants and donations, Operation School Bell is run with the proceeds from the Assistance League's Beaverton thrift and consignment stores. A major fundraising event is the upcoming "Dancing with Portland Stars" gala set for Nov. 20 at the Portland Art Museum. The Assistance League of Portland has run the Hillsboro program since 1998, when volunteers gave out 88 winter jackets to children from the district's two lowest-income school. Since that first year, Operation School Bell has expanded to provide new jeans, shirts, socks, underwear and shoe vouchers to growing numbers of children recommended by their classroom teachers and school counselors. All of Hillsboro School District's elementary schools now participate and the district provides the space for storing and distributing the clothes. During the 2009-10 school year, more than 720 children were outfitted with new clothes, and this year the Assistance League anticipates even more families to participate. "We expect to do more this year because the need has become so great," aid Linda Springer, an Assistance League member who chairs Hillsboro Operation School Bell. Springer and fellow volunteers, Liz Gillespie, Sally Rove and Carol Laughlin, have helper duties on a sunny October day. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| 4 Ways to Kepp Hand-Me-Down Clothes for Kids in Good Condition - Associated Content Posted: 15 Oct 2010 12:02 AM PDT Many people choose to save money by handing down clothing. This is a practice that has been going on for years and is very effective. There are several ways to keep hand-me-down clothes for kids in good condition. 1) Make sure you get stains out right away. Sometimes, if a shirt or pants get a stain, it will not be an urgent matter to take stains out, but if you are planning on handing down the clothes, you should make sure and  2) A way to keep hand-me-down clothes for kids in good condition is to be careful what you put in the drier. Some clothes are delicate and if you are planning on handing them down, you want to hang dry them rather than put them in the drier. Clothes that have patterns or stitching especially should be left out to dry so they don't get ruined over time. The majority of clothes are okay to go in the drier, but some can have the wear and tear increased if they are dried by machine. 3) Use OxiClean to treat the whites! White clothing is the most difficult to hand down because by the time the white clothing has been used so much, it is in no condition to pass down. Whites need something powerful and OxiClean will meet the need. 4) Do not allow a child to wear formal clothes to play! Many times after church, children will come home and play for a little while outside in their church clothes before mom spots them. Formal clothes may be the most expensive clothes to buy, so handing them down will really save some money. Make sure when they get home from a formal event, that they change immediately and this will help keep formal hand-me-down clothes for kids in good condition. Hand-me-down clothes are only good if their condition is good. Otherwise, you make the next child feel like he is in another category when he has torn, stained clothes and his brother has new clothes. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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