JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Action News Jax and our Family Focus Partners are teaming up to collect new school supplies as part of our \u201cTools for School\u201d drive.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are a lot of kids in need. We\u2019re very happy to have helped,\u201d Ken Swan said.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Ken and Patty Swan heard about the drive from watching Action News Jax This Morning. They said buying school supplies for them was nostalgic. <\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t have to buy school supplies anymore so I\u2019m like, I may as well,\u201d Patty Swan said.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery year we would have to do this, so we\u2019re happy to do this for a charity event,\u201d Ken Swan said. <\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n The school supplies are going to students and teachers at the YMCA\u2019s Tiger Academy. <\/p>\n \u201cTiger Academy is our (First Coast YMCA\u2019s) charter school on the Northside,\u201d Eleanor Blair, Vice President of Strategic Communications for First Coast YMCA, said. \u201cIt\u2019s Pre-K through 5th grade and these school supplies are going to help all of our students all through the year.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt really impacts us,\u201d Isis Golden, Program Director at First Coast YMCA, said. <\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n Golden said the school year at Tiger Academy wouldn\u2019t be the same if it weren\u2019t for this drive.<\/p>\n \u201cThis really does help our children, this really does help our teachers \u2026helps every staff member that\u2019s at our charter school to just have that wonderful and good successful year that everybody deserves,\u201d Golden said. <\/p>\n The \u2018Tools for School\u2019 drive wraps up at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Action News Jax and our Family Focus Partners are teaming up to collect new school…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":969881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[15619,13030,82824,5229,209555,3188,723,389446,7310,12406,425,29917,30170,389442,389444,49106,207688,389443,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,389445,23951],"class_list":["post-969880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action_news_jack","tag-action_news_jacks","tag-action_news_jackson","tag-america","tag-first_coast_ymca","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-isis_golden","tag-jacksonville","tag-ken","tag-local","tag-madison","tag-madison_foglio","tag-maggiano","tag-patty_swan","tag-phil","tag-saint_johns_town_center","tag-tiger_academy","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-ymc","tag-ymca"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/969881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}