Russo's Marketplace will donate 10% of today's book sales to First Book Bakersfield, the local chapter of the national organization which provides books to in-need children.  2400 books annually are distributed in Bakersfield thanks to the community's generous support (this is the local group's largest fund-raiser of the year).

To encourage you to come out and buy a book, the following events / celebrity readers are planned today at Russo's Marketplace:

10am Lt. Willoughby of the Bakersfield Police Department

10:30am Debby Kroeger from CALM with a surprise animal!

11am Fresno Pacific University Library Media Program graduate students/Tiernie Church

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