Students at Clinton and McPhee elementary schools are benefiting from two campus-led drives to collect cold weather gear.
The School of Natural Resources’ “Coats for Clinton” program collected enough coats, scarves, hats, gloves and sweatshirts to fill seven trash bags. Campaign organizers said the result — which also included $1,200 in cash donations — was the largest in the 10-year history of the program.
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Volunteers for a project led by Jo Ann Emerson and Sandra Williams donated 200 scarves for students at McPhee Elementary.
Many of the scarves were handmade by the volunteers. The project was inspired by a news story from New Hampshire.
According to Lincoln Public Schools, 92 percent of students at Clinton Elementary and 89 percent at McPhee Elementary are in the free- or reduced-lunch program. Many of the students at both schools also take a backpack of food home each Friday so their families can eat through the weekend.
Faculty, staff and students interested in donating to the students can still do so by contacting administrators at the schools.
Lanette Kreifels, executive secretary at McPhee Elementary, said students at the school are in need of winter boots (sizes 12 toddler to kids 7), blankets and quilts.
