A community festival at the Delridge Community Center, 4501 Delridge Way s.w. that will feature a huge backpack giveaway and lots of kids activities is happening Saturday, August 4, hosted by Eastridge Church.

The event will start at 11 am with outdoor activities for the entire family. It's a reasonably brief event, ending at 2:00 pm, but during that three hour span a massive giveaway of 750 backpacks filled with school supplies, a kids area and BBQ lunch are all set to take place. Children’s activities include inflatable games, face painting, a clown and Olympic-style field games. All activities are free but the lunch has a fee.

Eastridge Church Lead Pastor, Steve Jamison said, “Each year we have a great response to our annual turkey giveaway at Thanksgiving and toy giveaway at Christmas inWest Seattle. This year we wanted to do something more to give back to the community. To help give kids a jump start to the school year we decided to give away backpacks loaded with supplies and throw a fun summer festival event,” he said. “It’s a tangible way that we can extend a blessing to the families in the community.”

The backpack giveaway will begin at 1 pm with registration starting at 11 am. Onsite pre-registration is required. One backpack per child in elementary through high school. Child must be present to receive backpack.

You can get more information at www.EastridgeToday.com.

Eastridge Church is located in West Seattle at 4500 39th Ave. s.w., Seattle.