Victoria, it’s time to empty your shelves — for a good cause.
The 21st annual Times Colonist book drive for literacy begins today with a drive-through drop-off at the Victoria Curling Club.
We’re asking readers to bring good-quality used books to the drop-off, which runs from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. today and Sunday at the Victoria Curling Club at 1952 Quadra St.
Volunteers will then spend the next two weeks sorting the donations for resale to the public on the weekend of May 5 and 6. All the money raised goes to education and literacy projects on Vancouver Island.
If you want to donate, please pack books in boxes or bags that you don’t want back. No encyclopedias, textbooks, magazines, medical books, outdated reference works, Reader’s Digest condensed books or National Geographics, please. (Also, the volunteers would appreciate it if the boxes weren’t overly heavy.)
The queue for the drop-off can be long at times, so we appreciate your patience.
Once on site, it will go more smoothly if you follow traffic directions and stay in your vehicle as the volunteers empty it of books. Please enter from Pembroke Street, not the lane off Caledonia Avenue.
