The Cinco de Mayo event on 23rd St. in Richmond/San Pablo this past Sunday was a rousing success.
The overall attendance at the Festival was huge (event organizers estimated the crowd to be 10,000 to 15,000). There were lots of families with children, particularly in the earlier hours of the event. West County Reads was able [...]
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May 10, 2008
Literacy Village for Cinco de Mayo
May 9, 2008
The Prospect Sierra Book Drive
Prospect Sierra, a local El Cerrito private school recently gave a wonderful gift to the less fortunate kids of West County. As part of their Earth Day public service projects, Prospect Sierra families conducted a book drive for gently-used children’s books for West County Reads. This is truly recycling at its truest form.
The outpouring [...]
November 16, 2007
Super Saturday, times six!
The 6th Annual Super Saturday Family Fest, held on Saturday, October 13th, was the most successful yet for West County Reads. This wonderful festival for West County families, sponsored by First Five Contra Costa and the West County Regional Group, was held in a new location (JFK Park rather than Richmond City Hall). Despite the [...]
September 17, 2007
Adventures of the Reading Wizard and the Jess-ter, vol. 1.
The El Sobrante Stroll
Armed with a wizard’s staff, a green wagon, and over five hundred books, the Reading Wizard and the Jess-ter took on a mission of dispensing free books to local children at the El Sobrante Stroll. With nothing more than a sign declaring Free Kids Book (to indicate to the kids to leave [...]
August 29, 2007
West County Readers,
In the spirit of community and organization, I just wanted to share with you some photos and details of the summer book drive that took place at Jenny K and Well Grounded Coffee and Tea Bar (6925 Stockton Ave, El Cerrito) two weeks ago.
We were very privileged to be joined by various members [...]
August 27, 2007
Introduction!
Hi out there in blog land -
Just wanted to introduce myself as you’ll be hearing from me (mostly) over the next year or so. My name’s Jess and I’m an AmeriCorps Vista working with West County Reads to help get the organization in a place to work towards longevity. I moved from NYC to the [...]
January 25, 2007
Holiday Books Bring Joy
This past holiday season, West County Reads was fortunate, once again, to be able to provide books to the wonderful array of programs associated with the West County Emergency Service Provider Network. We were introduced to this network which serves some of the least privileged families in West County by Kate Rauch with Supervisor [...]
January 12, 2006
Books Help Brighten the Lives of West County KidsSince December 2004, West County Reads! has worked with Contra Costa County’s Emergency Service Providers. ESP is a coalition of 30 agencies supporting homeless, low-income, foster & immigrant families. Some of the agencies involved are Opportunity, Girls Inc., Bay Area Rescue Mission, GRIP, Richmond Food Pantry, [...]
October 10, 2005
A Super Saturday of Reading!
On Saturday, October 8th, thousands of parents and their children gathered at the Richmond Civic Center for a wonderful day of family-oriented activities and resource sharing. This was the fourth annual event sponsored by First Five Contra Costa and the West County Regional Group, a wonderful collaborative of neighborhood parents. Throughout the day [...]
