Volunteers are busy collecting books and sewing book bags for the Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy’s Book Under Every Tree Project.

Left to right: CBAL volunteers Enid Barnhardt, Faye Neilson, CBAL Community Coordinator Katherine Hough and volunteers Lori Woensdregt and Bonnie Charleton are busy with this annual event.  Help put a book under every tree! 2012 marks the third year that Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy (CBAL) has partnered with the Salvation Army and Sunrise Rotary’s Christmas Angel Project and the citizens of Cranbrook to provide gift-quality books for children, teens and adults for Christmas.

Over 380 children received books last year through this program. Collection boxes for new or gently-used books are located at the Cranbrook Public Library, the Key City Theatre and Christ Church Anglican. They hope to have one or two other drop-off locations as well.

Books are collected until Dec 14 then sorted and bagged in specially made draw-string bags and then given to the families collecting Christmas hampers or gifts through the Angel Tree program. They need volunteers to sew bags (fabric provided) and to help sort and bag the books.

Cranbrook has been generous in the past and they know that the need continues with the expected number of children receiving books to near 400. Please be sure that the books are good enough to be given as gifts (no marks, names written on them or torn pages etc) as they are intended as gifts.

They also invite the parents and other adults receiving hampers to choose a book as a Christmas gift from the community when they pick up their hampers. Anyone wishing to volunteer please call Katherine Hough, Community Literacy Coordinator, 417-2896 or [email protected]

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