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Local family heading Gatlinburg school supplies effort
Former Gatlinburg residents spearheading drive
W 120716 SCHOOL SUPPLY DRIVE
Southeast Bulloch High School sophomore Colten Brown, 17, brainstormed a school supply drive for the victims of the Gatlinburg, Tenn. wildfires after visiting the area with his mother and grandmother last week.
Donation efforts across the South have collected food, clothing and other supplies for the victims of the Gatlinburg area wildfires, but a local family is reaching out to fill a forgotten need: school supplies. Manda Hingston, a Bulloch County resident who moved here from Gatlinburg a year ago, is spearheading a drive to provide more than 300 students in and around Sevier County, Tennessee, with necessities such as notebooks, paper, pens, pencils and other school supplies to replace what they may have lost in the fires. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced Wednesday that two juveniles believed to be responsible for starting the massive fires have been charged with aggravated arson.
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