<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/studentservices/studentaffairs/articles/citrusview-studentveteransbackpacks18.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>11/01/2018</pubDate><title>Community Partnership Packs a Difference</title><author>Strategic Communications, Marketing and Public Affairs</author><image><img src="/studentservices/studentaffairs/articles/images/citrusview-studentveteransbackpacks18.jpg" alt="seven citrus college and foresters volunteers stand among rows of backpacks filled with school supplies for student-veterans"/></image><caption>Accounting instructor Robert Smolin (second from left) stands with Maria Cruz, director of the Veterans Success Center, and Alex Sierra from Foresters Financial Services, along with volunteers who filled backpacks for student-veterans.</caption><thumbnail/><display/><description>Through a grant and campus partnership, nearly 60 Citrus College student-veterans received backpacks stocked with school supplies, continuing the Citrus Business Association's tradition of supporting the VSC.</description><tags><tag>about</tag><tag>departments</tag><tag>student life</tag></tags></item>