All Prairie Lake Elementary receive backpacks

West Orange Times & Observer
Neighborhood

Nine hundred backpacks of assorted colors were stacked at the entrance of Prairie Lake Elementary, ready to be handed out to the entire student population. Families were invited to the pick-a-pack and glow party event held Friday, Aug. 2. Additional backpacks will be handed out during the school’s Meet Your Teacher.

XL 106.7 radio station provided the backpacks and their contents — a notebook, folder, pencil and sharpener, glue stick, crayon, ruler and scissors — through the Baby DJ Fund.

Inside the darkened cafeteria, guests could join in a glow party complete with dance music and fluorescent balloons, hula hoops, bracelets and games.

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Amy Quesinberry

Community Editor Amy Quesinberry was born at the old West Orange Memorial Hospital and raised in Winter Garden. Aside from earning her journalism degree from the University of Georgia, she hasn’t strayed too far from her hometown and her three-mile bubble. She grew up reading The Winter Garden Times and knew in the eighth grade she wanted to write for her community newspaper. She has been part of the writing and editing team since 1990.