By paNOW Staff

Local club thinks of Slave Lake

Jun 5, 2011 | 11:36 AM

A group of Prince Albert women are looking for an inexpensive way to ship books.

The University Women’s Club wants to collect and send books to help Slave Lake after they lost their library in a fire that destroyed close to one-third of the buildings in the community in Northern Alberta.

The group has already decided to send a $500 donation to the efforts in rebuilding the library.

“Literacy is close to the hearts of the people in the organization and we’d like to reach out and help in any way we can. We’re helping with some money, but if there’s a way to help with sending some books we’d like to do that as well,” said Barb Gustafson, treasurer with the University Women’s Club.

Unless they can find a way of getting the books there, that plan will not go ahead.

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Twice a year the club holds a book sale at South Hill Mall with the money going towards a local scholarship.

Due to generosity of book sale patrons and publicity from the mall, more funds were raised than ever before, Gustafson said.

As a group they decided to donate the extra money, but they still want to do more.

Gustafson asks that anyone planning a shipment with donations to the community, contact her at 922-2150.

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