GiViNG , from Page 1 Camden and the surrounding areas ,” Cortellessa said . “ So , they have a pop up library three days a week in Camden and they have book arks , I think they have 75 of them , all over Camden that makes books accessible 365 days a year for anyone that wants to look at them .” Cortellessa , over the last year has reached out to people in a
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handful of ways to gather and donate as many books as possible to the Camden County Pop Up Library .
“ I started collecting books through the Women ’ s Civic Club and then to friends , and families , and neighbors and I delivered about an estimated 2,200 books over the last year to the pop up library . So that ’ s one of the projects I ’ ve been working on ,”
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Cortellessa said .
Cortellessa is not alone in her volunteer efforts and has been working on some of her projects with her family . Cortellessa loved spending time with her family working on volunteer projects and found that it was a great way to spend time at the start of the pandemic .
“ It really is nice . It gives us some time to spend together and during the pandemic , my work had gotten some Red Cross comfort
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kits and they needed volunteers . So , we decided as a family just to put them together . We made 52 of them over a couple month period ,” Cortellessa said . “ It was just nice . We spent time together and we were just able to have some family time because we weren ’ t really able to do anything during the pandemic . We weren ’ t able to go out so we figured we would just help people ,” Cortellessa said .
Cortellessa ’ s two daughters , Angelina and Megan , also helped with her book collecting project by going through all of the children ’ s books from their childhood and donating them , since children ’ s books are what ’ s most needed by the Camden County Pop Up Library .
Cortellessa is able to contribute to the community with all of these volunteer projects by spending most of her free time working on them . She also recently worked on a project , “‘ Cerealsly ’ From The
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Heart ,” with the Hammonton Woman ’ s Civic Club , of which she is a member .
“ If I have some free time , instead of sitting down and watching TV I ’ ll work on a project . We just did the Woman ’ s Civic Club project with cereal . We collected boxes of cereal , shelfstable milk , bowls and spoons and we put together 82 packages for the food bank ,” Cortellessa said .
Another project Cortellessa got involved with starting in 2019 is the Winslow Township All Star Program , something that is also available to residents of Hammonton .
“ There ’ s one thing that my daughter and I volunteered for , starting in 2019 , a program in Winslow called the Winslow Township All Star Buddy Program . It ’ s open to anyone , even if you ’ re not from Winslow and what it does is pair children with special needs with a buddy and they ’ re able to do sports . We ’ ve done basketball , hockey , soccer and it ’ s just a great way for kids to play and learn sports … It ’ s just a wonderful program ,” Cortellessa said .
Helping out isn ’ t something Cortellessa plans on stopping any time soon , either .
“ It ’ s just nice to occupy your time and do something for someone else ,” she said .
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