 Grace Community Kitchen will be offering more than just hot meals this back to school season. Grace will be giving away 200 backpacks filled with school supplies August 3rd, ensuring local students have the supplies they need to start the school year. We serve meals here twice a week and we see the need for families for food and food is a basic necessity but when children go to school like they have to have backpacks, they have to have school supplies and we don't want families, if we have anything to do about it at all or can help, we don't want families to have to decide, okay, do I spend this much on food? Do I not get a backpack or, you know, be in that kind of dilemma to have to wrestle through that and find a solution so we want to try to provide a solution if we possibly can. Cancer, it's a very scary word, but an outstanding treatment facility was here at home. I was led to the Lawson Cancer Center. As a nurse practitioner at the Lawson Cancer Center, we are champions for our patients. I am so happy for Robert. The treatment worked. Studies show that children having proper school supplies of their own can help improve grades, creativity, attitudes towards learning, behavior and self-image. The obvious answer to why we should invest in the kids is because that's our future, that's our future leaders, that's our future employees, that's our future families, you know, our business owners, whatever it is and we want to give our children the best possible start that we can in life and we want to help them along because as go the children, so goes our society and so the better equipped, the better educated and mostly physically, spiritually that children are the more well-rounded they are, the better adults they are and the better our society is as a whole. For more information, go to Grace Community Kitchen on Facebook. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.