We are looking for a Los Angeles venue that can seat around 300 people for our
May 11th 20th Anniversary. If you have a connection, please let us know!
THANK YOU, AHMANSON FOUNDATION!
We are very excited to thank the
Ahmanson Foundation for their recent
$10,000 grant - their eighth $10,000 grant they have awarded to us since 2004! Working together we are able to share your joy of reading with thousands of children every year!
It's back! Crossword puzzle lovers from everywhere will be converging at the
Crosswords LA tournament on
Sunday, October 21st – with proceeds benefiting
Reading to Kids!
This year's tournament will again be held on the University of Southern California campus (specific location details forthcoming), and
Crosswords LA needs our volunteers to help!
They need a dozen volunteers to set up portions of the event, greet and sign in contestants, and collect puzzle papers. It's a lot of fun volunteering with them!
This tournament raises money for Reading to Kids, so
if you can volunteer with them for either the full day or a half day, please reply to this email today. Full day volunteers (8:30am – 4:45pm) get a
free lunch! Help show our appreciation by supporting their efforts for us!
Please help recruit another 276 volunteers! We hope for 1,200 kids on October 13th eager to see the magicians we'll have performing
that Saturday.
If you haven't already, please join
our
October 13th Facebook Event. It really helps us when you do because your friends can see you're attending the reading clubs. Help us spread the word by inviting them to join!
After you join, don't forget to go to our website and
sign up with us.
It would also be a huge help if you
printed out this flyer and posted it
at your work or favorite community bulletin board. Please also use our convenient email template (in PDF) to recruit volunteers!
We are still looking for one more
magician to perform at one of our eight schools. We also encourage all volunteers to dress up in school-appropriate Halloween costumes!
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DRAG QUEEN BINGO ON OCT. 3RD:
SHARE OUR CELEBRITY FLYER!
On Wednesday, October 3rd, join Reading to Kids
for
Legendary Bingo at
Hamburger Mary's in West Hollywood with celebrity ballcaller
Tim DeKay from White Collar, Party of Five, Carnivale, & Here and Now!
The drinks are strong, the drag queen bingo is "R" rated,
and seating is limited, so be sure to reserve your seat in advance!
If you've been before you know it's a blast. If you haven't, click here for a video of one of our previous winners to see what you've been missing!
Please click the image above for a flyer in .PDF format, and forward it to anyone you know who may be interested in going to our Legendary Bingo Night. You can also print out the flyer and post it wherever many people are likely to see it, perhaps with a note that you are going and inviting others to join you.
WHEN: Wednesday, Oct. 3, 7pm - 9pm
WHERE: Hamburger Mary's Restaurant
8288 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90046
(323) 654-3800
Cost: $20 suggested donation (cash only, please!), which includes 9 regular bingo games and one grand prize bingo game with fantastic prizes!
Legendary Bingo is very popular and there is limited seating available. Plan to arrive before 7:00 p.m.
to get a seat. We strongly suggest making a reservation (you must have a party of
4 or more) at Hamburger Mary's to ensure your seat.
All proceeds go to Reading to Kids. For more details, visit our
Oct. 3rd Bingo event on
Facebook and invite your friends!
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12 MORE RUNNERS NEEDED FOR MARATHON,
1/2 MARATHON, OR 5 K!
Do you know any runners? Are you a
runner? Please forward this email to them
and ask them to join
Team Reading to Kids in the 2019 Skechers Performance Los
Angeles Marathon on Sunday,
March 24th!
We're looking for seven more full marathon runners and five Charity Challenge runners (the last 13 miles of the course) to join us in one of the best marathons in the country.
If either of those distances is too daunting, you can join us in the Big 5K (that's just 3.1 miles) near Dodger Stadium the day before the marathon on Saturday, March 23, 2019.
You can
share this Facebook group with any of your runner
friends to encourage them to join our team!
If you or a runner you know is interested in
becoming one of our fundraising runners or
creating a fundraising team, please email
Chris Martin at
marathon@readingtokids.org!
IMPORTANT NOTE: To register to run
on behalf of Reading to Kids, you
MUST receive from us a special web address
to use when registering on the Skechers
Performance Los Angeles Marathon website.
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Thanks, and we hope you can join or help with any of the above!
