A big, big thank you to everyone who helped make our book drive in partnership with Words Alive a huge success! Thanks to all of you, we were able to collect a whopping total of...drumroll please...645 books!! (With a few more still rolling in!) In fact, Words Alive has informed us that this was one of their most successful book drives of the year!
Our happy hour on April 29 offered a fun way to bring all of the books together and wrap up the project.
We would especially like to thank our collection box hosts: Grace Viola, Peggy Makie, St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Michele Wyngard, Robin Dodds Lang, Ali Herndon Ortega, and Jessica Cubeta. And congratulations to Peggy Makie for collecting the most books! For this, she earned a $25 Better World Books gift certificate!
The new and gently used children's books gathered through all of your hard work and generosity will be used to build a lending library
at a local Childhood Development Center and to help spread the
love of reading to many of Words Alive's other program sites.
If you still have books to donate, it's not too late! You can drop them off M-F, 8:30 am-5 pm, at the Words Alive offices:
5111 Santa Fe Street, Suite 219, San Diego, CA 92109
(l-r: Bobbi Weaver, Robin Dodds Lang, Michele Wyngard,
Amanda Quist, and Amanda Bonds, Words Alive Program Coordinator)
Just a few of the books we collected
Peggy Makie receiving her gift certificate
Wow! 645 books! What a great outcome! Thanks, Kate, for heading up the book drive and helping make it such a wonderful community project.
Posted by: Daria | 05/07/2010 at 02:01 PM
Thanks, Daria, but I couldn't have done it without everyone's help, especially Bobbi. Thanks, Bobbi! And thanks again to everyone who collected or donated books. :-)
Posted by: Kate Vigderson | 05/07/2010 at 02:38 PM