Alex Cote, left, and Zach Gilpatric, right, are pictured with 53 school bags the West Auburn Congregational Church congregation put together over the summer. Each bag contains spiral notebooks, blunt scissors, ruler, pencil sharpener, eraser, pencils and a box of crayons. The bags were donated to the Trinity Jubilee Center, which addresses the needs of under-served people in the Lewiston-Auburn area through meal programs, food pantry, community outreach and refuge assistance.
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