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Know a family in need? Here’s where to go for free clothes for kids

By Lisa Pemberton

lpemberton@theolympian.com

File, 2011: Tumwater High School student tutor Allison Deck (left) helps Life Skills class member Michael Berman sort donated clothing as Special Education and Life Skills teacher Elaine Robertson assists his classmate Brian Manviller. The class washes garments for the Clothes Closet, which opens twice a year and serves Tumwater-area families in need.
File, 2011: Tumwater High School student tutor Allison Deck (left) helps Life Skills class member Michael Berman sort donated clothing as Special Education and Life Skills teacher Elaine Robertson assists his classmate Brian Manviller. The class washes garments for the Clothes Closet, which opens twice a year and serves Tumwater-area families in need. Steve Bloom Staff photographer

The Tumwater School District’s Clothes Closet will be open noon to 3 p.m. Saturday at Peter G. Schmidt Elementary School, 237 Dennis St. SE.

The giveaway is open to all Tumwater area families in need of clothes in sizes infant to teen.

No income verification is required. Participants are asked to bring their own bags.

The Clothes Closet usually opens twice a year, and offers gently used clothes that have been collected, sorted and laundered by students in the Life Skills programs.

Lisa Pemberton: 360-754-5433, @Lisa_Pemberton

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