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NH Inmates Craft Back-to-School Backpacks for Kids

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Friday, August 17, 2007   

Santa Claus is coming early this year, thanks to state workers and inmates at the state Women’s House of Corrections in Goffstown. The prisoners are making back-to-school backpacks for children at the nearby Bartlett Elementary School. And last night, the State Employees Association delivered school supplies to fill those backpacks. It's part of the Association's Operation Santa Claus, which is headed by Laurie Aucoin . She says the all-volunteer effort was the prisoners' idea.

"It was something that they wanted to do for those that had children that are over in the state prison system. They actually came up with the idea of doing this for the kids."

Aucoin explained that state employees pitched in just about everything needed to send the elementary students back to school in style.

"We got everything from book covers to pens to pencils, to binders to notebooks, crayons, markers, you name it, we bought it."

Aucoin added that 200 stuffed backpacks will be delivered to school for the upcoming year. At Christmas, Operation Santa Claus provides toys for more than 3,000 New Hampshire children.




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