Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara has been collecting school supplies for the last several weeks in partnership with the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hilderbrand Davis Post 1895 in Schenectady and is set to distribute these school supplies to local veteran families on Saturday at 11am.

AssemblymanSantabarbara, who served in the US Army Reserve from 1990 -1998, said, “With so many families having faced new challenges over the past year and a half it’s now more important than ever that we all do our part to ensure every child can start off the new school year prepared with the supplies they need.”