Our school year is fully back in swing, with 369 kids, 172 volunteers,
80 parents, and 23 teachers & staff
participating in last Saturday's September 14th reading clubs! 17% of the entire student body of MacArthur Park Elementary joined us that Saturday!
Amongst the many crafts the kids were inspired to create, 1st graders enjoyed creating fire-breathing dragons after hearing Aaron Slater, Illustrator!
(1st grade crafts at MacArthur Park Elementary.
Click on the above and below images to see them full size)
Time for more fun in the sun! Spend any part of this Sunday afternoon at Dockweiler Beach with your fellow Reading to Kids volunteers this Sunday, September 22nd, from Noon - 8pm. Let us know you are coming at our Facebook event!
The main entrance address is 12000 Vista del Mar, Los Angeles, CA 90293. We will be near Lifeguard Station #57, and our precise location on the beach will be posted that day to our Facebook page at facebook.com/readingtokids and on our X (formerly Twitter) at x.com/readingtokids )
We'll be soaking up the last bit of summer with sun, sand, plenty of refreshments, and games! Just look for the large blue canopy tent!
Please feel free to bring:
- Refreshments (and any food/beverage supplies you'll need)
- Towels
- Sunscreen! (don’t forget!)
- Anything else to enjoy the day! (See below for exceptions)
There’s a great bike path that runs through Dockweiler up through Marina Del Rey, all the way to the Palisades. Dogs are NOT allowed on the beach, but they are allowed in the parking lots and along the bike path, as long as they are on leash.
The large beach parking lots charge $13 on weekends, although you may be able to find limited street parking in the vicinity. That day we’ll be posting a GPS pinpoint to help find us on our Facebook page and on Twitter, and you can just look for the tent, too.
We must follow the beach rules:
NO Animals
NO Cooking
NO Diving
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NO Loud Music
NO Glass containers
NO Solicitation, sales, or advertising
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NO Alcohol
NO Smoking
NO Littering
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See you there!
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SUPPORT US WITH GROCERY STORE & ESCRIP;
EBAY GIVINGWORKS
Did you know you can support Reading to Kids just
by shopping at the grocery store or using your credit card?
eScrip
and
Ralphs both have programs that are NO COST ways
for you to donate to Reading to Kids.
All
you have to do is
call Ralphs or go online and register your grocery
cards. When you use those cards at a participating
store or service provider, the store will donate a
percentage of your purchases to Reading to Kids!
Click here for simple instructions
on how to sign up or renew! Or, you can
call Ralphs Community Contribution
Program at
(800) 443-4438. Explain you want to register your Ralphs
card number and your telephone number.
Reading to Kids NPO# is BR278.
Note if you have previously signed up: You have to renew
your registration each year
on or after September 1st, so please renew again for this
year!
Do you sell items on
eBay? If you list an item on eBay through their
GivingWorks program, you can donate some or all of the proceeds to
Reading to Kids!
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FIVE MORE RUNNERS NEEDED
FOR THE 2025 LA MARATHON,
13.1 MILE CHARITY CHALLENGE,
OR LA 5K!
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 2025 Los
Angeles Marathon or 13.1 Mile Charity Challenge on Sunday,
March 16th!
This is our 11th time running the marathon, and we're looking for five Charity Challenge runners (the last 13.1 miles of the course) and more full marathon runners 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 LA 5K (that's just 3.1 miles) near Dodger Stadium the day before the marathon on Saturday, March 15, 2024.
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 Los Angeles Marathon website.
Our next Legendary Bingo fundraiser at
Hamburger Mary's in West Hollywood will be on October 23rd! Please help us gather prizes for auctions and bingo winners that night!
To help you get started, here is information about Reading to Kids to share with potential donors, as well as a donation form for them to complete.
We especially enjoy awarding gift certificates,
amusement park and theater tickets, gift bags, and
autographed items! Anything unique is great, too!
If you work at or have a connection with products or services to offer, please help us by asking for a donation to our events.
You may have gift cards you haven't used which would make excellent prizes if you'd like to donate them to us! E-mail us at info@readingtokids.org to arrange mailing them to us!
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