UPS delivers: Generosity means school's pupils can start term well-supplied

Sometimes a need goes unnoticed.

Or it can be assumed other agencies or services are doing as much as can be done.

But once in a while a person or group catches wind of something in the community in which they live, work or provide service to, and it doesn't matter what anyone else is or isn't doing about it.

Such was the case Wednesday with the people at UPS of Goldsboro.

We cannot say enough about the way the company's business manager, Dee Hurley-Holmes and her crew of employees stepped up.

UPS delivered.

A donation of more than $1,200 in school supplies -- backpacks filled with notebooks, pens, pencils, crayons and more -- to North Drive Elementary School.

Thanks to her, and Goldsboro community relations manager Shycole Simpson-Carter who impressed upon Hurley-Holmes the need there, students returning to class at the school later this month will be fully equipped to take on the new year.

That's no small deed.

Many of these kids would have otherwise shown up to school with nothing more than the clothes on their back and a desire to learn, but with spirits dampened by the fact -- which they have no control over whatsoever -- that they didn't have the necessary supplies the other kids in their class had.

Teachers and administrators do what they can to provide for their students when the family simply can't, and Communities Supporting Schools and other outfits help out wherever possible.

But for a business based in the community to answer the call in such a large, heartfilled and humble manner -- UPS didn't solicit the paper to cover the donation, someone else did -- speaks volumes about what this community is capable of when caring meets doing.

Published in Editorials on August 16, 2017 9:34 PM