Churches, businesses and families are needed to help provide school supplies for many students whose parents simply cannot afford to pay for a backpack and other school materials.

Mason-Dixon Community Services in Street will hold one of many school supply drives Aug. 25 in Harford County, said Patricia Hammond, coordinator at the organization?s Maryland chapter.

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