Make a difference in the lives of others! Become a volunteer tutor! Mason County Literacy and Thurston Bookends will be hosting an ESL (English as a Second Language) volunteer tutor training on the 22nd and 23rd of August at South Puget Sound Community College. Please contact 360-464-8578 or 360-426-9733 for more information on the training and on how to become a volunteer tutor.

Also, we have other urgent needs for volunteers especially in Shelton in the following areas: data entry, creative work, clerical work, bilingual-Spanish computer class, database management, childcare and more! We also have several workstudy and internship opportunities.

We look forward to hearing from you! :)

The excellent blog Orcinus has a new post on How to Out A Sundown Town. Clear instructions are given on how to research the secret history of your town.

The historical fact is that if you're a middle-class white American living in the north or west of the country, the odds are overwhelmingly good that the town you live in, right now, is a sundown town -- or was one at some point in the not-so-distant past.