Volunteers put school supplies into backpacks Wednesday at the United Way of Androscoggin County office on Ash Street in Lewiston. Volunteers from local businesses and the Auburn-Lewiston Rotary Breakfast Club helped stuff 2,500 backpacks during the United Way’s annual Backpack Project. The backpacks will be delivered to students in need at 47 schools across Androscoggin and Oxford counties. Ten businesses contributed to the program, including a $7,500 donation from Lee Auto Malls and backpacks donated by L.L.Bean. Pictured from left are Ethan Richard, Bill Hunter, Chard Richard and Nicole Sevigny. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Ethan Richard of the Auburn-Lewiston Rotary Breakfast Club puts school supplies into backpacks Wednesday at the United Way of Androscoggin County office on Ash Street in Lewiston. Volunteers from local businesses and the Auburn-Lewiston Rotary Breakfast Club helped stuff 2,500 backpacks during the United Way’s annual Backpack Project. The backpacks will be delivered to students in need at 47 schools across Androscoggin and Oxford counties. Ten businesses contributed to the program, including a $7,500 donation from Lee Auto Malls and backpacks donated by L.L.Bean. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Tricia Foster, left, Lee Upton, center, and Chard Richard of the Auburn-Lewiston Rotary Breakfast Club put school supplies into backpacks Wednesday at the United Way of Androscoggin County office on Ash Street in Lewiston. Volunteers from local businesses and the Auburn-Lewiston Rotary Breakfast Club helped stuff 2,500 backpacks during the United Way’s annual Backpack Project. The backpacks will be delivered to students in need at 47 schools across Androscoggin and Oxford counties. Ten businesses contributed to the program, including a $7,500 donation from Lee Auto Malls and backpacks donated by L.L.Bean. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Tags for each of the 47 schools that will benefit from the United Way of Androscoggin County annual Backpack Project are organized by school Wednesday. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Lee Auto Malls contributed $7,500 and two volunteers toward the United Way of Androscoggin County annual Backpack Project. Various local businesses and the Auburn-Lewiston Rotary Breakfast Club provided funds and volunteers as well. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Kate O’Brien of Lee Auto Malls puts school supplies into a backpack Wednesday at the United Way of Androscoggin County office on Ash Street in Lewiston. Volunteers from local businesses and the Auburn-Lewiston Rotary Breakfast Club helped stuff 2,500 backpacks during the United Way’s annual Backpack Project. The backpacks will be delivered to students in need at 47 schools across Androscoggin and Oxford counties. Ten businesses contributed to the program, including a $7,500 donation from Lee Auto Malls and backpacks donated by L.L.Bean. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal