 Hello everyone, I'm Alicia Anderson and welcome to the Fort Report. Starting a new school year can be a costly experience for some Tarrant County families. With our County Commissioner's support, one organization helps kids starting school. We are in our 12th year of serving the community. We are an organization who prides ourselves on being able to provide children with the essential needs to go back to school to at least start school so that no child goes to school and be handed. This year, we serve roughly about 10,000 children and that is from pre-K to grade 12. We provide them with backpacks and the majority of the supplies that they'll need just to start the school year. During the actual event that takes place on August the 10th from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Will Rogers Coliseum. We also offer haircuts, immunizations, eye exams, dental exams, hearing exams. There are also lots of different agencies who come out to share in this experience and they also offer services as well. Back to School Roundup is by pre-registration only, so you must attend one of the pre-registration activities. If you do not register, you will not be able to get into the venue at all. If you go into the Back to School Roundup website, you can click on pre-registration locations and it will give you a map as well as the ability to print out all of the pre-registration locations. If you would like to help them, the volunteer positions are always available. The success of the Back to School Roundup is solely the responsibility of volunteers. On the day of the event, we have more than 300 volunteers who take their time to come and work the event. That event is to make sure that there's water for the people who are outside waiting in line to make sure that everything flows the way that it's supposed to flow. Make sure that you have everything that you need when you get into the event as well as passing out the supplies and making sure you get to the haircuts and your immunizations and everything that you need. We also need volunteers for our pre-registration events that can come in and just for a couple of hours to sit and pre-register the people as they're coming in to get their vouchers for their supplies. For more information on pre-registration, volunteering, and to donate money, visit backtoschoolroundup.org. Here's a look at other events happening in and around Fort Worth in the next few weeks. For a listing of more events and city meetings, you always can check the calendar at the city's website.