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Reaching Fundraising Goals

This month’s Reach a Reader campaign for the Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy raised $2,135 in Nelson.
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October 18

This month’s Reach a Reader campaign for the Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy raised $2,135 in Nelson. Across the Kootenay Boundary, the campaign involving Black Press papers made over $10,000 for reading-related programs. Rebecca Wheeler (right), recreation programmer at the Nelson and District Community Complex, was one of the many volunteers who helped out at various locations around town by collecting donations for the Nelson Star, including one from Sally Drysdale (left) of the Cloudside Inn.