A local teenager whose community service project provides backpacks to several nonprofit groups that work with children and families is halfway to her goal of collecting 400 gently used backpacks ...

Kalia Roper, a seventh grader at St. James Academy in Solana Beach, was looking for an old backpack that would be easy to carry around on the crutches she had been using because of a knee injury.

Through July 19, North Island Credit Union invites community members to make a difference in a student's life by dropping off a school backpack to any branch location in San Diego County. A complete ...

What’s in the sack? That’s all they care about. Is it a rock or a rolled-up giraffe? Is it pickles or nickels or busted bicycles? And if we guess it, will you give us half? Do they ask where I’ve been ...