A car wash fundraiser will benefit the third annual celebration of Vancouver’s black history.
The car wash is set for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday at the Lord’s Gym, 2410 Grand Ave., just north of Fourth Plain Boulevard. Volunteers will do all the washing.
The donations collected will help finance the third “Back in the Day Reunion,” noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, in Marshall Park, 1510 McLoughlin Blvd. More details are to come. The public is welcome.
The reunions got going in 2012, after the publication of Jane Elder Wulff’s book, “First Families of Vancouver’s African-American Community: From World War II to the Twenty-First Century.” Many of the attendees have been members of the earliest African-American families in town, who were drawn here in the 1940s by wartime jobs.
For more information, contact Ralph Griffin at 360-980-6203 or Juanita Young at 360-521-4890.
