Some of you may have heard: Bookmans Flagstaff employees are supporting our normal community events even though we don't have our brick-and-mortar location. We've taken to the streets and are continuing to sponsor and support our core causes: environment, literacy, animal welfare and education, while we're helping to rebuild the store, sort through inventory and getting ready to start buying merchandise again!

This week alone, we will have people reading to kids during our weekly story times, except instead of in the stores, we'll be traveling to three local elementary schools to read and help in the reading room of the Northland Family Help Center; and supporting our weekly in-store animal adoption events by working with abused animals at Second Chance Center for Animals.

We also plan to get involved with our local Literacy Volunteers to support our literacy causes, and let the community know that Bookmans is still alive, even during the rebuilding of our store. When we're not out in the community supporting our causes and letting people know that we're getting ready to come back and be better than ever, we're working in the warehouse to look through books, magazines, CDs, DVDs, video games and more. We're refinishing and polishing what seems like hundreds of DVDs and CDs, hoping to salvage as much as possible! Check out some of the pictures of the progress: