Provided Longport Police/Olivia are Patrolmen Dean Tibbitt and Josh Sikoryak.
LONGPORT – Giving back is nothing new for Olivia Stone, 14, a freshman at Ocean City High School, who, for the third year running, helped the Longport Police Department collect school supplies valued at more than $5,000. Her efforts have increased from her first school supply drive in 2019, when $1,500 worth of notebooks, pens and crayons were donated.
Olivia Stone with the school supplies she collected.
Olivia Stone delivered school supplies to the Longport Police Department Aug. 28 for delivery to needy children in Atlantic County.
Stone said previously that she was motivated to do the collection while shopping for her own school supplies. Stone, then age 12, said she overheard a family whispering that they were not able to afford their child’s supplies.
“I felt so bad for them and wanted to buy them the school supplies that they needed,” she said. “I know a lot of kids struggle, and without basic school supplies it is even harder for them to learn than it already is.”
