Need to buy books? Wait a few weeks – and help New Start!
We’ve had this fundraiser for White Center’s New Start High School, coming up 1/29, on the White Center Now Events Calendar for a few days. Now, a letter from Paul Fischburg:
Hey friends,
As many of you know, I’ve been volunteering to help New Start High School in White Center create a school library. New Start started as a King County funded after-school program for kids who were skipping school and hanging out in downtown White Center. After a few years of great success, King County funding ran out and with tremendous commitment, the Highline School District took New Start from a small storefront helping a few kids, to a growing alternative high school for about 120 kids who haven’t succeeded in traditional schools. Last year, New Start graduated its first class of seniors!
Working with teachers, students, and Michael Sita, the school principal and head of alternative programs in the Highline District, I designed the library and raised $15,000 in addition to donated computers to get the library started. Andrea Love, a new para-educator at New Start, scavenged district furniture got the library set up and running, ordered and catalogued books, and uses the library as her office to work with students individually and in groups.
We don’t want to stop there and you can help.
On Thursday 1/29, all day, when you buy anything at the Barnes and Noble at Westwood Village shopping center and show them the attached flyer, a portion of the sales will be donated to New Start for the library. Better yet, books on New Start’s wishlist will be on display and you can buy one directly for the library. Even better still, come on down between 6:30 and 8:00 pm, and view student art work, hear readings of student writings and enter a drawing to win an ice cream party at White Center’s own Full Tilt Ice Cream!
You can download and print the flyer, which has the voucher number, here.
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