PHOTO GALLERY: Sarasota Bay Rotary Club's Back to School Backpack Event

Bus drivers Loice Carpenter and Craig Taylor load bags full of backpacks into a school bus.

Wendell Kent fills backpacks full of school supplies.

Volunteers on one side of the table prepare the supplies for the backpacks.

Dr. Ali Tahiri

Mike Murphy places the filled backpacks into large bags for delivery.

Volunteers fill the backpacks with school supplies.

Backpacks filled with school supplies are distributed to elementary schools in the area.

Theresa Carnegie hands James Ritcher a backpack filled with school supplies.

Christina Rogers-Hehr and other volunteers fill the backpacks with school supplies.

Suzi Atherton and Bill Folz

Theresa Carnegie

School Counselor Christina Rogers-Hehr represented Fruitville Elementary School at the Rotary’s backpack event.

Gretel Mahaffey and Zoltan Karpathy unpack the backpacks for the event.

The Sarasota Bay Rotary’s backpack program supplies over 1,000 backpacks to students in need.

Bus driver Craig Taylor loads the backpacks into a school bus.