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GE Transportation employee Andy Newpher, 38, left, of Fairview Township, sits with Edison Elementary School students Fitsama Berhe, 5, center, and Leevon Bethel, 12, right, both of Erie, as they explore their new school backpacks full of supplies which were given to them by GE Transportation at the school in Erie on Sept. 4. The corporation donated 45 of these school backpacks, each stuffed with school supplies such as pens, pencils, notebooks, binders and art materials.

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