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Lunch with the Authors – Fundraising Success!
📚 Many thanks to our amazing authors: Janie Chang, Robert Dugoni, Tim J. Myers, Elayne Klasson, and Kate Quinn who made our fundraiser such a success! 🎉 Every author…
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Story Hour at Parisi House on the Hill
Story Hour at Parisi House 🏠 is so much fun for the mothers and their children 👩👧👦as well as our members. There is an abundance of reading 📖, singing…
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3 Pallets of Food for CityTeam!
It is so ❤️ rewarding to bag food for San Jose CityTeam and help serve our community with such a simple act. Our members have a good time chatting, getting…
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Today’s Leaders Are Tomorrow’s Leaders
In March, Readers are Leaders volunteers read “Listen” a biography of 🥁Evelyn Glennie by Shannon Stocker, illustrated by Devon Holtzwarth and 🐒”Grumpy Monkey” by Suzanne Lang, illustrated by Max…
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Screening Eyes Early (S.E.E.) Preschool Vision Testing
🤔 Did you know: 🤓 80% of learning comes through the visual senses? 👀 1 in 20 preschool-age children have vision problems? 👏🏼 Screening Eyes Early (S.E.E.) is early intervention which is…
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Thank You to Our Local Sponsors
You help make 📚books for kids, 👨🏽🎓uniforms for students, 🤓 glasses for preschoolers, 👶blankets for newborns, 👵🏼 bingo for the infirmed, and 🍔food for the hungry possible. ❤️ We are…
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Did You Know?
In 1906, Anne Banning began a relief unit in response to the SF earthquake and fire, calling it Assistance League. In 1919, she organized Assistance League of Southern California,…
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“Happy Birds” Visit Family Supportive Housing
AL of San Jose volunteers hosted a ‘Happy Birds’ special event at Family Supportive Housing. The Happy Birds troupe’s amazing parrots entertained the resident families with their fun, interactive,…
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Read Across America Day
🎂Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss! AL of San Jose’s Readers Are Leaders program supports literacy for children throughout the year, reading in over 50 classrooms and donating books to the…
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Welcome, New AL of San Jose Memberes
The AL of San Jose Board met with new members for a Meet & Greet Social. The theme of the get-together was “These are a Few of Our Favorite…
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