Suzanne Barr, art teacher at Hampton High School, is the latest Northeast Community Credit Union Helping Teachers Teach grant winner.

Barr applied for the grant to purchase supplies for Shibori dying, a Japanese form of tie dying, for her fiber arts class. This year is the first that Hampton High is offering a fiber arts class for students.

“Materials for a fiber arts class of 20 students is very expensive, no matter how budget friendly I try to make it,” Barr said. “This art project will allow my students to experience fabric dying techniques used by other cultures that they otherwise might not get to experience. My students will enjoy this project and it will teach them skills they can use on other projects.”

Northeast Community Credit Union awards $300 every month to a classroom to be utilized for classroom needs, classroom activities, and academic enrichment.  Helping Teachers Teach is open to teachers within Carter, Johnson, Unicoi, Sullivan and Washington counties who are members of Northeast Community Credit Union. Area teachers may become members online or at any NCCU location and can download the grant application on the credit union’s website:  www.BeMyCU.org.

Northeast Community Credit Union is helping to support students as they prepare for a new school year by sponsoring both of Carter County’s backpack programs.

NCCU donated $1,000 to both of Carter County’s Back to School Bashes in both cash and giveaways. The Back to School Bashes gives away thousands of backpacks filled with school supplies to students in the Carter County and Elizabethton City school systems each year.

Back to School Bash Ministries will host an event this Saturday, July 27, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Hampton High School. The Bash will have free school supplies, food, activities, characters and more. Items will be given away on a first-come, first-serve basis and children must be accompanied by an adult.

The Elizabethton City Schools will be hosting their Back to School Bash on Monday, July 29 from 6-8 p.m. at Elizabethton High School. This bash will have free backpacks, school supplies, snacks, and games and activities on the field for children.

Northeast Community Credit Union will be at each Back to School Bash with special giveaways for students.

Northeast Community Credit Union has been serving the community since October 1952 when it was chartered as a credit union by the State of Tennessee. Northeast Community Credit Union is a not-for-profit financial cooperative. It is open to anyone who lives, works, worships or attends school in Carter, Johnson, Washington, Unicoi and Sullivan counties along with their immediate family members.
For more information, visit www.BeMyCU.org.

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