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In December, Rebecca “Bicky” Warrington, owner of Shaper’s Hair Salon, and her husband Dan Warrington, owner of Warrington Builders, hosted their fifth annual poinsettia sale to benefit Critchlow Adkins Children’s ....
– The Raising a Reader committee of the Monday Club will continue its "Raising a Reader" program to further childhood literacy and provide access to books for children. The outreach effort will help provide books to more children, not just those who participate in the RAR program through their schools. The committee is asking the community to clear out their bookshelves in an effort to collect children's books. ....
The mission of the Raising a Reader program is to engage caregivers in a routine of book sharing with their children from birth through age eight. ....
–The Raising a Reader (RAR) committee of The Monday Club has launched a new program to further their mission of promoting childhood literacy and providing access to books for children. This new outreach will help provide books to more children, not just those who participate in the RAR program through their schools. The plan is to collect “gently loved” children’s and young adult’s books (ages 0 – 18) from Monday Club members and from the community and deliver them to the SLO Food Bank to be distributed via a program called “Breakfast Bags.” These are drawstring backpacks given to youth under 18, which are filled with 3 weeks’ worth of shelf-stable, easy-to-prepare breakfast items and other resource material. The Food Bank works to distribute 9,900 of these bags per year to 40 sites. The Food Bank staff will put the donated books into the Breakfast Bags, ultimately getting them into the hearts and homes of children without access to books in their homes, and ....