The Clarkston-area Youth Assistance group hosted a back-to-school picnic at Clintonwood Park last week for kids involved with the Mentors-Plus program. After they finished eating’and before they got really silly and had fun just being kids’everyone had the opportunity to pick out a new backpack and fill it with age appropriate school supplies like binders, paper, pencils, pens, crayons and other necessities. Photo by Laura Colvin