This year’s “School Supply Drive” for the children of CAST clients was a success beyond anyone’s wildest expectation. According to Veronica Kaliski, speaking for the shul’s Tikkun Olam group, she had to ask CAST to empty the big red barrel by the kitchen door twice during the campaign, and still school supplies kept coming — pencils, glue sticks, paperclips, notebooks, dividers, rulers, scissors, index cards, markets, pens and backpacks to hold all that stuff.  The campaign ended on August 21.

Tikkun Olam had asked shul members to fill the bin to overflowing, not thinking the bin would be filled to overflowing three times. Tikkun Olam thanks all contributors for helping kids get a head start on a successful school year with all the new supplies to inspire them.

Also overflowing are the veggie beds at Common Ground, harvested by Madelyn Rothman, and contributed to CAST.