Community Lodgings

September 9, 2025
Jane Hess Collins

Tags: Food & Shelter, Arlandria, Bonnie Baxley, community lodgings, get out and give back, Jane Hess Collins, Mary Hellem, Mary Tiemann
Bonnie Baxley, Community Lodgings' executive director, Mary Tiemann and Mary Hellem at the "Communitea" fundraising event this past spring at Old Town Alexandria's Union Street Public House. Photo courtesy of Jeanne Theismann

Not long ago I wrote a story about kids who read to puppies. When Community Lodgings asked me to help with Read Aloud, their reading program created for toddlers whose parents attended evening life skills classes, I was ready for some good, old-fashioned story time.

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