Local Book Club Donates to Pearl B. Larsen Elementary School Library

The Altona Lagoon Book Club donated books to the Pearl B. Larsen Elementary School Library on Friday, March 1. It was an exciting day for Grades 1 through 8 students, the school librarian, and the school principals. A total of $1,300 was spent at Undercover Books & Gifts in Gallows Bay to outfit the school library.

This is the book club’s third year for a book donation to an elementary school. Juanita Gardine Elementary School in 2022 and Claude O. Markoe Elementary School in 2023 were the recipients of the Altona Lagoon Book Club’s generosity.

Leonor Gillette, the book club’s president, started the club with six members, and the membership is now up to 20. They meet monthly at Cafe Rouge in downtown Christiansted, take a summer break, and resume their meetings in the fall.

“We are grateful to Food Town for their matching funds, to Undercover Books & Gifts’ Kobie Nichols for her discount and for ordering the books, and for the generosity of our book club members,” Gillette shared with enthusiasm.