“I like the flowers and the rainbows and the shine on the butterflies,” Taviana Cooper, who’s going into second grade, said. “I knew I was going to choose something pretty.” A total of 1,000 backpacks ...
Coming in from the pouring rain, it wasn’t hard for Isaiah Dunigan, 14, to choose a new school backpack from the 1,200 of widely varying types stacked on and under tables in the large conference room.