Boy Scout to outfit 50 in back-to-school drive (and an estimated 8,000 from others)

[The Straight Story]

Boy Scout to outfit 50 in back-to-school drive

Matt Tolliver stood in his Grove City garage amid the neatly stacked weapons for this autumn's assault on poverty. "I was looking for an idea, and I wanted something that would affect a lot of people in my community," he said Monday.

Until this year, Tolliver had never met Betty Kletrovets, the Grove City woman who has directed the Tom Fennessy Back-to-School Project for the past 10 years, providing school supplies and backpacks to thousands of needy central Ohio children in the name of the late Dispatch columnist Tom Fennessy.

Tolliver, 16, explained to Betty that he was working toward his Eagle Scout rank and would like to try to gather enough school supplies and backpacks to outfit 50 children.

"I was impressed," Kletrovets said. "Matt had it planned out well."

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