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Backpacks for children

09/11/2023 by The Coonamble Times

PHOTO: Coonamble Public School students with Catherine Woodbine (the Backpack Venture), Stewart Murrell (the Backpack Venture), CPS Principal Annette Thomson, Alison Drew (the Backpack Venture), Teresa Stanford (Coonamble Police), Coonamble Rotary President Keith Glover, and Colleen Mulholland (the Backpack Venture).

Last week Coonamble Shire hosted quite a unique charity group who travelled across from Port Stephens to deliver school supplies to those in our community who need them most.

'The Backpack Venture' was first started in 2019 by Catherine Woodbine and Alison Drew, two mums on the central coast, to provide . . .


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