Volunteers help prepare children for first day of kindergarten

More than 100 Publix employees spent Tuesday morning working to make sure Manatee’s youngest residents are ready for school. Green-shirt clad grocers stuffed roughly 1,500 “Kindergarten Readiness Bags” at Manatee Technical College. The bags contain learning materials and a checklist of skills students should master by the time they begin school, and every child attending kindergarten in one of Manatee’s Title I elementary schools will receive a bag...United Way Suncoast