Ron Hoppe, director of purchasing and contracts with the Long Beach Unified School District, holds and is surrounded by a few of the 180,000 bottles of hand sanitizer.
They were donated to the district by Long Beach Pride. Photo: Aaron Peterman LONG BEACH — It was the largest number of items from a single donor that the Long Beach Unified School District had ever received.
Four semi-trailer trucks, on three different days, dropped off approximately 180,000 bottles of hand sanitizer earlier this month at the district’s warehouse in North Long Beach.
The gel will be used to help fight COVID-19 as the district prepares to open later this month for in-person distanced learning with transitional kindergarten through fifth grade students.