M

Legging It for Literacy

photo of legs and running shoes of a person walking on a road. Western Counties Regional Library Charitable Association’s Legging It for Literacy is Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025 at McKay Memorial Library, 17 Glasgow Street.

The event begins at 10 a.m. in support of the Literacy Legacy Fund.

Participate

Teams of walkers gather donations to enter.

Participants who reach a certain level of fundraising ($150 for adults, $75 for youth under 17 or under) receive a Legging It for Literacy T-shirt.

There will be a 2.5-km and 5-km route (2 x 2.5-km route). Check out the route map by clicking here.

Participants can dress as their favourite literary character and prizes will be awarded for best costume.

photo of someone dressed as the Mad Hatter with large top had, red hair and bushy eyebrows with a painted white face

Dress as your favourite literary character!

Waiver and Entry Form

To download a PDF print version of the form, click here.

About the Literacy Legacy Fund

The Literacy Legacy Fund enables Western Counties Regional Library to establish secure funding annually to enhance its collections.

The fund creates a place for large donations from generous supporters while permitting the library to manage its collection.

The fund will benefit individual library branches for years to come.

Why?

Western Counties Regional Library operates 10 library branches in Digby, Shelburne and Yarmouth counties and must deal with the challenge this huge geographic region with a sparse population presents. It is costly to provide proper library services. Funding for the library has remained relatively static over the past decade.

In order to counter this, the library has set up the Literacy Legacy Fund.

The larger the fund grows, the more library materials (books, eBooks, DVDs, etc.) that can be purchased with the interest generated by the fund.

This enriches the collection, better serving the community, and it makes the library more recession-proof and able to weather government funding freezes and cuts.

Donate

To support this fundraiser using this link, please donate using the form below.
If you wish to donate in another manner (cash, cheque, eTransfer) visit our Donations page here and choose Literacy Legacy Fund as your donation choice.

Our Sponsors

We wish to thank the following businesses for supporting this important fundraiser:

Route Sponsor

 

Community Sponsor

 

Goods and Services Sponsor

 

Media Sponsor