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School supplies expected with truckload of beans from Idaho

Students in Filer, Idaho learned about distance and giving to others when Physical Education Teacher Vicki Leach focused the annual Walkathon at Filer Elementary School to benefit students in Galveston ISD. Normally funds raised from the event go to purchase technology and other items the school needs. But this year, the goal was to walk 3,500 miles, the estimated distance from Filer to Galveston, while collecting school supplies for GISD students.

Each day of the Walkathon, students brought a designated school supply item to school as a “ticket” to walk on the track. Students brought pencils (and dressed in yellow like a #2 pencil,) notebook paper, crayons and other miscellaneous supplies. One day was “Bucks for Books” and $1,500 was collected for GISD library books.

Once the supplies were collected, Ms. Leach recruited help from a local trucking company in Idaho, Kruse Nationwide, that mainly ships farm products out of state. The trucking firm had a shipment of beans headed to Molina, Texas and would make room. So the school principal put the supplies in the back of her truck, drove seven miles to Buhl, Idaho, to the bean company, where 1200 lbs. of donated school supplies were loaded on a pallet, shrink-wrapped, then loaded onto the front of a truckload with boxes of dry beans. After delivering and picking up shipments in Nevada and California, the truck is expected to arrive in Texas next week.