New Generations

The Rotary Club of East Salem has built and installed eleven Little Free Libraries in the east Salem area. Club members have adopted each of these libraries and refill them with books on a regular basis. These libraries, which are heavily used, help build literacy skills that enable children to be ready for kindergarten, graduate

Seven East Salem Rotary Club members and a group of youth from the Boys & Girls Club’s Oregon Youth Corps removed trash from Market Street on Friday. These youth are participating in a summer internship that provides workforce opportunities to underserved youth that focus on conservation and restoration projects. We appreciated the help from such

This month, East Salem Rotarians once again provided literacy materials for children at the second annual Northgate Park Fun Fridays event. This is a summer-long community event sponsored by the Hallman Neighborhood Family Council. Our club members provided a free book for each child who stopped by. We are very grateful that the Salem-Keizer School

Volunteers conducted a cleanup of the learning garden located at the Boys & Girls Club Swegle branch on May 11th. East Salem Rotary members built the garden in 2014, and it was overgrown with grass and weeds. East Salem Rotary club members, two staff members of the Boys & Girls Club, and three students from

Three hard-working Blanchet Catholic School students joined East Salem Rotary club members on April 6th to clean up the learning garden the club built in 2012 for children served by the Family Resource Center located next to the garden. The students received a tour of the center and learned about how it supports the needs

East Salem Rotary’s Little Free Library project was featured recently in an article posted by the Salem Reporter. Community service committee chair Maureen Casey explained the importance of supporting literacy in our east Salem area, and shared about our ongoing efforts to obtain books to keep our ten libraries filled. Children in east Salem do

Goodwill has recently donated 100 children’s books to our club to help fill our libraries, and we have received 12 boxes of donated children’s books from Bill Leach at the Keizer Community Library. East Salem Rotary’s Little Free Libraries are always in need of children’s books, especially for younger children. The donated books have all

A new library that is serving homeless families has been installed at Catholic Community Services in the micro shelter housing area that is being managed by the Church at the Park. For now, the Church at the Park can keep the library filled with their own donated books. Thanks to Ted and Pat Mack for

East Salem Rotary promotes literacy all year long with our Little Free Libraries. Our libraries are so heavily used, we have found that we are in great need of children’s books right now, especially for elementary-age students. We have a book order in process through the Book Bin, but we need donated books while we