Christmas Hours

Project Literacy Kelowna will be closed for the Christmas Holidays. We will be open until December 23rd, and will be closed from the 24th until January 1st. Friday, January 2nd, we will resume our regular schedule of Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 9:00-4:00, Wednesdays from 9:00-7:00 and Fridays from 9:00-12:00. Please call us or your tutor/learner if you need to change your meeting schedule over the holidays.

Happy Holidays from Project Literacy Kelowna Society.

Tutor Training

General and Trades volunteer tutors are needed to help our adult clients in all areas: reading, writing, math and English as a Second Language!

Our November Tutor Training is fast approaching. It will be held on Thursday, November 27th in the evening and continued on Saturday, November 29th during the day.

If you have a few hours a week to spare and are interested in becoming a volunteer tutor, please let us know; we could really use you!!

Call 250-762-2163 to learn more or to set up an interview.

Volunteer Fair

(Back row from the left: PLKS Executive Director, Barb Hagan, Assessment Consultant, Elaine Johnston and City Counsellor, Michelle Rule. In front: Learning Disabilities Consultant, Jean Lee and Trades Project Coordinator, Louie Gaudet)

The Volunteer Fair was another big success for Project Literacy Kelowna Society. We met so many interesting people and generated a lot of interest. Thanks to all the volunteers and everyone who stopped by for information. We have many new tutors as a result.

Raise-A-Reader Day

Mayor Sharon Shepherd and RCMP Supt. Bill McKinnon

Thank you Kelowna!!!
Raise a Reader Day Was a Huge Success!

Last year, which was the first time Raise a Reader day was held in our city, just under $3,000 was raised in a little over one and a half hours and we were thrilled!

This year, with the help of a $5,000 donation from the Rotary Club of Kelowna, $1,000 from the Kelowna Okanagan Mission Rotary Club and $6,000 collected by an awesome team of volunteers on street corners throughout Kelowna and the Westside, our local total for the sale of special edition Raise a Reader Daily Courier newspapers reached $12,000!

As was the case last year, the province of BC has promised to match every dollar raised including our share of corporate donations from across Canada and proceeds from three CanWest concerts. All in all the estimated grand total is projected to be in excess of

$40,000!!

(left) Project Literacy Board Member, Jennifer Marte
(right) Project Literacy Tutor, Airlie Pinkerton

On behalf of our board members, staff, learners and tutors thank you to the Kelowna Daily Courier’s publisher, Alison Yesilcimen and Managing Editor, Tom Wilson for bringing Raise a Reader to Kelowna in support of family literacy.

International Literacy Day

Thanks to all the Kelowna Firefighters who joined us for International Literacy Day.

Our 3rd Annual International Literacy Day Celebration at the Kelowna Library was a big success!!

We gave away lots of books, balloons and prizes. Everyone was entertained by the Kelowna Professional fire fighters and local celebrities who read children's stories in the reading circle.

Also, Judi Garner-Niehaus's puppet story was a big hit and got some of the audience involved as well!

Thanks to all the volunteers and participants who came by the library, we had a great time!! Our next Big Event is our annual Raise a Reader Day on September 24th. Look for volunteers selling newspapers for donations on street corners throughout Kelowna and on the Westside.
















(left)What a team! Thanks for another amazing International Literacy Day celebration
(right) Meet Webster, our 2008 CHBC TV Good News Bear. You will have a chance to win Webster by making a donation to the Kelowna Food Bank during CHBC TV's annual Christmas Good News Bear Campaign.

Project Literacy Kelowna Society now has a blog!!

Hello everyone!!! If you are reading this, you must have found our new blog. We will try to update everyone as to special events as well as general events that are relevant and interesting to us and you. Check back for more blog updates, and please tell your friends to check out our new blog!