Citizens Bank branches are collecting donations of school supplies to fill more than 3,800 backpacks the bank has purchased for local disadvantaged and homeless children.
Nemont has announced that it is currently holding a Cell Phones for Soldiers drive in hopes of collecting a windfall of old cellphones. Cell Phones for Soldiers is a non-profit charity that collects used cellphones and sells them to a cellphone recycling company in Michigan.
Jean Harris, who grew up at Seattle's Yesler Terrace, the first racially integrated public-housing project in America, is collecting oral histories from her fellow "alumni" to publish in a book she'll call "From the Terrace."
