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By Times Staff
Published June 21, 2006
CLEARWATER - A nonprofit organization has launched a project to collect essential items for the area's homeless population. Bring Items of Necessity, or BIN, was created by the Homeless Emergency Project, a nonprofit that provides housing and support services to 1,000 people each year in the Tampa Bay area. BIN is a one-year project that will be active until June 2007. The project's themes and supplies being collected for the next three months are: -- June - "Walk a mile in their shoes." Gift certificates or new men's, women's and children's shoes. -- July - "A ticket to ride." Bus passes, tokens, gas cards, bicycles, locks and helmets. -- August - "Pack it up, pack it in." Gift cards, new back-to-school supplies and backpacks. For a list of BIN themes, companies accepting donations and dropoff locations, visit PostcardMania's Web site at www.postcardmania.com/HEP.asp
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