Salina USD 305 is hosting a face mask drive through Aug. 20 with the goal of engaging the Salina community to help provide students with a backup face covering.
While social distancing puts physical space between us, we can still come together as a community. The mask campaign is an opportunity to do that.
Newly sewn or purchased cloth masks and face coverings, child to young adult sizes, will be collected through Aug. 20. The district is unable to accept medical or N95 masks as it wants to reserve those for health care workers.
Masks can be dropped off at two locations, with outdoor drop-off boxes at:
●Hageman Education Center, 409 W. Cloud
●Board Offices, 1511 Gypsum
Salina USD 305 will provide one face covering for each student. Masks need to be washed and dried between uses so it will be helpful for families to have more than one face covering for their students. And as we all know, it’s nice to have options. Having more than one mask to choose from may help younger students adjust to this new requirement.
"The mask drive is a chance to work together so that every USD 305 student has a backup face covering. We hope you will join us!" USD 305 noted in a news release.