Olympic Medical Center employees donate supplies to Port Angeles schools

PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center employees donated school supplies to the Port Angeles School District earlier this month.

Lillian Doming, Graciela Harris and Rick Mattern spearheaded the school supplies drive for Port Angeles School District students and collected donations from OMC employees.

This was OMC’s 11th annual “school supplies” effort in supporting Port Angeles students.

Donations will now be distributed to each district school.

Among the supplies OMC employees collected were 14 boxes of tissues, 65 pairs of scissors, 201 file folders, 99 erasers, 22 bottles of school glue, 10 pencil cases, 65 rulers, 32 spiral notebooks, 50 packages of markers, 145 ink pens, 156 colored pencils, 255 packages of crayons, 855 pencils, 222 glue sticks, 180 packs of paper, five pencil sharpeners and 10 backpacks.

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