Beaumont Girl Scouts Building, Installing New 'Little Free Library'

Jenna Guzman, 12, and Destinie Ruvalcava, 14, Cadettes from Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio Council, Troop 2121, located in Beaumont are proud and excited about working on their Silver Award Project — the highest award a Girl Scout Cadette can earn — through developing a project that will have a sustainable, positive effect on their immediate community.

For their project, the pair of Cadettes are building a Little Free Library. A Little Free Library is a free book exchange that allows anyone to take a book or share a book with others in the community. There are no rules, no late fees, and it is for everyone!

• Promote literacy and the love of reading through offering a free book exchange that is accessible to those in the area that may not have available transportation to the local library
• To build a sense of community as skills, creativity and wisdom across generations are shared through literature.

The way it works is simple:

• The girls will initially stock the LFL with a variety of good quality books that they hope will interest their neighbors in the community
• You stop by and take whatever interests you
• You return and bring books to contribute when you can
• LFL books are always a gift and never for sale

The Little Free Library will be located at the Chatigny Community Center 1310 E. Oak Valley Parkway in the city of Beaumont and will be available to the public beginning Tuesday, Sept. 21. It will hold a range of books that appeal to the countless children and seniors that frequent the community center. And will also feature a small bulletin board and a special something for those in the Geocaching world! For extra books collected, a selection of books will be reserved for the benefit of the African Library Project which helps start libraries in rural Africa.

Girl Scouts strives to build girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place. Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio Council (GSSGC) serves more than 10,000 girls in Riverside and San Bernardino counties with the dedicated support of 5,000 adult volunteers.

They believe that in order to be a leader within your community, you have to truly become a part of that community. Girl Scouts offer girls the unique opportunity to identify and support issues that are important to them, form partnerships with other people, businesses, and organizations and create sustainable projects that change the world around them.

For more information about the Little Free Library movement, please visit http://littlefreelibrary.org/

For more about the African Library Project, please visit http://www.africanlibraryproject.org/

For information regarding Geocaching, please visit https://www.geocaching.com/

For information regarding Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio — joining, buying cookies, or going to camp — call the main office at 1-909-307-6555 or visit the GSSGC website at http://www.gssgc.org/

--News release from the Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio