Northport Resident Helps With PSEG Backpack Drive

A Northport resident is among the many PSEG Long Island employee volunteers who helped provide nearly 400 local children with school supplies at the start of the school year.

Tricia Faltings joined fellow employees in donating various back-to-school items to the volunteer-based PSEG Long Island Employee Outreach Council’s (EOC) annual school supply drive. They collected thousands of boxes of crayons, pencils and pens, notebooks and binders, rulers, scissors and other goodies. These boxes were then packed by two dozen employee volunteers.

“I am continuously amazed by the generosity and thoughtfulness of our employees,” Nancy Campo, president of PSEG Long Island’s Employee Outreach Council, said in a press release. “Every year we put the call out and every year, they come through with generous donations for our area school kids and a willingness to pitch in and get the job done.”

The backpacks were dropped off at local food pantries, outreach centers and other organizations that help children and families, including Family Service League locations in Riverhead, Bay Shore and Huntington.

PSEG Long Island’s EOC's mission is to coordinate support for the specific needs of each community it serves. For more information, go here.

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