Holiday Inn Express & Suites DeLand has adopted Southwestern Middle School for the upcoming 2021-22 school year. To kick off the initiative, it is running a school supply drive.

Holiday Inn Express & Suites invites the public to drop off much-needed school supplies at the hotel. The public also can call the hotel’s director of sales, Christina Crowley, and she will gladly make arrangements to pick up donations.

Future efforts to support the school will be announced in the near future. Help the hotel help local teachers and kids!

Holiday Inn Express & Suites can be reached at 386-507-2500 and is at 180 Fenway Drive in DeLand, just north of the Country Club Corners shopping center.

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— Compiled by Business Editor Joe Crews