LEWISTON — The Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Uplift LA will hold Business After Hours from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 17, at the Great Falls Balloon Festival area in Simard-Payne Memorial Park on Oxford Street. The event will be catered by Buffalo Wild Wings with a cash bar provided by American Legion Post 153.

Uplift LA will collect school supplies during the evening to be help with the United Way of Androscoggin County’s Backpack Project Initiative, which annually provides much-needed supplies to children at local schools. Items needed include backpacks, pens, pencils, highlighters, glue sticks, glue bottles, hand sanitizer (small bottle), single subject notebooks, folders, rulers, markers, crayons, pencil sharpeners, color pencils, calculators, compass, protractors and individual packs of tissues.

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