Vendors sign up to participate in the


Back to School Bazaar and have a choice to pay $300 or bring 300 school supplies to give out. Vendors range from non- profits, churches, to dentists and other businesses who offer services to chil- dren and their families. This year, they will have resources for fighting addiction as Czanstkowski notes that is an issue in the home that can deeply impact children. A marker for poverty in the district –


the free and reduced lunch rate in Mountain Home – is 52 percent, accord- ing to Superintendent Dr. Jake Long. That figure has been steady for a number of years, but it surprises some people. “If you are in the school, you realize


it. Unless you are in a school where ev- eryone comes together, you may not see it. My husband is a financial plan- ner and he doesn’t see what I see,” Czanstkowski says. It was what she saw that led her to


approach Long, and tell him she would be interested in heading an initiative to


Tom Czanstkowski, husband of Bridges coordinator Jill Czanstkowski, brings in donations to the group’s area at Nelson-Wilks-Herron Elementary. DEAN CURTIS FOR LIVING WELL


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