by Holly Robinson
May 12, 2011 2:39 PM
Anyone who says they have not watched their kids or someone else’s blissfully playing some simple game and not thought,” The good ole days!” is lying. While life appeared to be as complex as can be when we were around elementary school age, the simplicity of it now from the outside looking in is enough to make you a little nostalgic.
One of the many activities that kids do in elementary school that can have an effect on the rest of their lives is reading. Recently a self storage facility in the Dallas, Texas, area made sure that kids in a local elementary school would not have a shortage of things to read in the near future.
Members of the Kiest Elementary School student council wrote a series of letters to local area businesses and organizations asking for help in renovating their library. Of the hundreds of letters sent out they received only one response, from Access Self Storage.
The good people at Access Self Storage were happy to help the young minds at Kiest Elementary with their library by donating books as well as stuff that could be utilized as décor. In fact, the timing could not have been more perfect for the school to have sent that letter to Access Self Storage. They were in the midst of helping out a local area church with the world’s largest garage sale so they had lots of things on hand that the school could use.
“We were fortunate to be housing the World’s Largest Garage Sale at the same time the [school’s] letter came in,” says Access owner Doug Hunt. “We bought up every suitable book we could find and sent them over.”
Kiest Elementary Librarian Adrianna Marroquin went over to the East Dallas Access Self Storage facility to help choose appropriate books and decorative items for the school’s library. In all, Access Self Storage ended up donating over 100 books.
The aforementioned “world’s largest garage sale” is another of the many charitable endeavors that Access Self Storage gets involved in. The garage sale is used to help send students on tour with a local church choir. Around $20,000 was raised last year, and in years past as much as $36,000 has been raised.
"There is no better way to raise money than to collect the old, the out-of-date, and the antique junk from one friend and sell it to another," states Doug Hunt from Access Self Storage.
Sources Used:
“Access Self Storage Helps Library Renovation Succeed.” PR.com; 08 May 2011.
“Self Storage Company Gives Reason for Songs to be Sang.” Self Storage Industry News; 29 April 2011.