There are maybe 400 of them, including a core group of 100 who have been around for the entire process leading up to this weekend’s sale at the Victoria Curling Club.
Hundreds of thousands of books on display, but she really wanted just one: an impossible-to-find air force history written by her father.
The first one, in case you’re wondering, was in 1998. That was 25 years and more than $6 million ago, with all the money going to literacy on Vancouver Island — and not a penny of it would have been raised were it not for the volunteers who make the charity event tick. Working alongside him was Dr. Derek Coozi, a Newfoundland native who spent the past 37 years as a family physician in Tennessee. Coozi and his wife just sold their 20-acre farm down south and moved to Victoria with nothing but three bicycles, two suitcases and a set of golf clubs.
After a life working in schools, she is passionate about the value of literacy, about saving kids from the devastating consequences of being left behind. On Saturday, she was joined by her daughter Brianne Melnyk, whose culinary arts students at Mill Bay’s Frances Kelsey Secondary baked treats for the weekend sorting crew.
Why go to such lengths to volunteer? Because they love books and value literacy. Or maybe they just enjoy the company of like-minded people, the kind who enjoy building and being part of a community.
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