More than 300 students in Gilbertsville got new winter coats
More than 300 Gilbertsville-Mount Upton students received school-branded coats. Sidney Federal Credit Union is giving coats to nearly 4,000 students in Chenango, Delaware, and Otsego counties.
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More than 300 students at Gilbertsville-Mount Upton received new school-branded winter coats, WBNG reported. Sidney Federal Credit Union is providing them. The same effort is giving coats to nearly 4,000 students across Chenango, Delaware, and Otsego counties. The more than 300 is the count at this school. The nearly 4,000 is the size of the gift across those three counties, which the credit union is still carrying out.
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More than 300 students at Gilbertsville-Mount Upton in New York received new winter coats with the school's name on them, WBNG reported. Sidney Federal Credit Union is the group providing the coats. Across Chenango, Delaware, and Otsego counties, the credit union is giving coats to nearly 4,000 students. The more than 300 is the number at this one school. The nearly 4,000 is the wider gift, still being carried out across those three counties.
- Why would a winter coat with a school name on it matter to a student?
- What is the difference between coats already handed out at one school and coats planned for a whole region?
- Who pays for something a school gives away, if the students do not?
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