 Thousands were at Stonecrest Saturday for the City of Prestonsburg backpack to school bash where 800 backpacks and other school supplies were all given out. It was also a great way to end summer break as inflatables were set up for the kids, a cookout was held and lots of superheroes running around. Free backpacks and school supplies may not seem like much to some, but to others it's a blessing. Some of us are in poverty level, so you know some of us can't afford backpacks. We have to go elsewhere to have help. I've got three kids, two of them are in school. The list that they got for the kids, we had to go buy all that stuff out of pocket. So what they're putting in the backpacks helps tremendously. I mean it would have cost us a fortune to supply two kids, let alone other people who have like four to six kids. Officials say this event would not be possible without the involvement of the community. Not only the City of Prestonsburg, it takes local businesses donating, we've had local business donating pencils, pens, pencil sharpeners, crayons, just a variety of things. It's definitely not a one organization effort. The more people you get involved, obviously the more supplies that we can offer and the more help that we can give the kids. It's events like these that reflect the type of community Prestonsburg is. To see the event that we have here, how much community participation that we have, I think that's awesome. We've met so many people so far, so many excited kids and we've got them lined up already and it was before the gates even opened that they were here. So just a really cool community and really cool people that I've met so far. Officials would like to thank everyone who donated their time to the event and would like to encourage more local businesses to get involved next year. Reporting from Prestonsburg for EKB News, I'm Shawn Allen.