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MELISSSA WEINMAN
Ray Redmond, left, and Jim Saunders collected used children’s
books for Woodward Elementary students by combing Goodwill and
other thrift shops, and by checking with book-trading websites.
Hillsdale residents donate 400
books to Brookhaven school
BY MELISSA WEINMAN
melissaweinman@reporternwspapers.net
Each of Woodward Elementa
ry School’s students was able to leave
school for the year with a book to take
home and read over the summer, largely
due to the efforts of two men from the
nearby Hillsdale neighborhood.
Kristin Gokce said when she asked
her neighbors for
help collecting used
books for the school,
Jim Saunders and
Ray Redmond took
the call seriously.
Over the course
of several months,
the two would bring boxes of books for
Gokce to deliver to the school, eventual
ly donating more than 400 books.
“They were like the little guardian an
gels. It was incredible,” Gokce said.
Saunders used credits he had built up
from an online paperback book-trading
club to get about 300 children’s books.
He would keep an eye out for children’s
books on a book-trading website, espe
cially books about Disney characters,
animals or history, he said.
“It takes a while to get these books in
because they’re mailed from all over the
country. When they do have them, they
will send them out. I’ll be getting, 30,
40 books a week,” Saunders said.
Then, Saunders and Redmond went
shopping to find even more used books.
“Ray and I went out to Goodwill
and St. Vincent de Paul and other thrift
shops and got another 100 books,”
Saunders said.
Saunders said he wanted to help
when he learned that many of the chil
dren at the school didn’t have books to
read at home.
“We wanted to feel useful and that’s
the way we could do this since there was
a need,” Saunders said.
Gokce, a Woodward parent who vol
unteers at the school,
said many of the stu
dents at the school
come from Spanish
speaking families.
For them, learning to
read can be especially
challenging because
English is not their first language.
Another obstacle for some of the stu
dents is they don’t have access to books
to read at home, Gokce said.
“A lot of them don’t have the oppor
tunity to have someone read to them.
A lot of them miss out on that,” Gokce
said. “They’re facing many barriers just
to get out of the gate.”
Saunders and Redmond said they’ve
enjoyed collecting books for the school,
which is only a few blocks from the
neighborhood they’ve called home for
more than 20 years.
“It was a lot of fun for us and kept us
busy,” Saunders said. “It was a fun, lit
tle project.”
And they said they plan to keep col
lecting books next school year.
“We may inquire over there at Cross
Keys High School,” Saunders said.
“They are in need of books, too. We
could probably get a number of books
for teenagers.”
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