Cash registers chime with the sound of back to school
Deirdre Newman
For the summer, 14-year-old Dion Domurat has a fair amount of free
reign to dress as he pleases.
On Saturday he sported a black shirt with silhouetted skulls and
bright orange flames leaping up the front of it. On his hand was a
large ring from Thailand that extended over the end of his middle
finger and contained an onyx stone.
But clothes like these are not acceptable for the incoming
Estancia High School freshman to wear to school said his mother, Ann
Inthapanti.
So she and fiancee Neil Ginoza took Dion to pick up some clothes
with a more conservative look.
“It’s fine with us,” Neil said of the clothes Dion had picked out
so far, which were mostly solid-color pants like khakis. “There’s no
flaming skulls or anything.”
With a mere three days before school starts, the area malls and
stores like Kmart and Office Depot were doing brisk business
Saturday.
At Office Depot, Clark Severson demonstrated how to figure out
exponents on a calculator to son Jonathan, who said he was looking
forward to going back to school.
“I’ve had too long a vacation and I’m bored,” Jonathan said.
Casey Duckworth, 8, who will be in the third grade at Kaiser
Elementary School this fall, had the help of mom Kara and grandma
Pamela Greene for her back-to-school shopping.
Kara got some blue folders for classes, some dry erase markers for
the teacher, lots of pencils and a Snickers bar, “which is the most
important thing,” joked mom.
Kara said she was looking forward to school starting so she could
meet her new teacher.
Office Depot has a 5% Back to Schools Program, where customers can
select a school to receive a credit of 5% of qualifying
back-to-school merchandise purchases.
Over at Payless Shoes, five-year-old Angel Jimenez, who is going
into the first grade at Whittier Elementary School, was torn between
tennis shoes and sandals featuring the characters from the Japanese
animation series, “Yu-Gi-Oh!”
“It’s going good,” said grandma Arlene Wester. “We just need socks
and underwear now.”
School starts on Tuesday.
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