Back to School Bash

By Jacob Stock

The Cuero Record

As we rapidly cruise right on through summer the 2022-2023 school year is peeping right around the corner. That means school supply and school clothes shopping is in full swing as parents try to gather up the necessary essentials. The Tri-City Empowerment Council is pleased to inform the community, and surrounding communities, of the 8th annual Etosha Lynn Backpack Bash that will take place on August 6 at The Cuero Park starting from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

The Backpack Bash is in honor of the late Etosha Lynn Holman who passed away back in February of 2015 from kidney failure. Etosha had one wish before her passing, and that was to provide children in need with backpacks full of school supplies. She told her mother, Viola Holman, that when her Dad wins the lottery she was going to buy an 18-wheeler with a flatbed trailer and sit there in a parking lot in her rocking chair just handing out backpacks full of supplies, giving them to any and every kid that came up. Being able to fulfill her only birth child’s wish, and seeing her memory live on is special to Mrs. Holman.  

“To be able to do [this] in her memory she didn’t live to do it, she died in February, and by August [of 2015] for me to keep my mind going, to keep my sanity I had to do something. One day I was just praying and I could see her sitting on the side of that flatbed trailer just rocking her feet back and forth, and I said oh let me do her wish she wanted with the backpacks and it has helped me to survive. God gave me something to hang onto in her memory. It means a lot to me, It means a lot when I see the kids and when they come up, or they call, and they say thank you for my backpack - they’re [always] happy with it,” a proud Viola Holman explained. 

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