Perhaps you've been reading in the news lately about the contributions that older Peace Corps Volunteers are making around the world. If so, you'll be interested in knowing that Evergreen has its very own 60-plus Peace Corps volunteer couple - Gail and Bill Frasier.

They work in the town of Danvers Pen in southeast Jamaica at the foot of the Blue Mountains. They are bringing their own special life skills to a small, very poor school in Danvers Pen.

Bill was a successful insurance executive with many skills, among them computer proficiency. He is bringing this knowledge to the students in this impoverished village. Gail is an accomplished ceramic artist and is bringing her lifelong library and reading skills to the students and is organizing a resource room with library books and computers.

Gail and Bill's many friends are helping out their efforts by establishing the Frasier Book Fund, from which Gail and Bill are able to buy books for their fledging library. Attached is a picture of them with some Grade 5 students in the Resource Room. Some of the students are holding up books purchased with funds from this Book Fund.

Public and school libraries are mostly non-existent in third world countries, so the work they are doing in the way of setting up a library as well as helping with computers is very much needed. Because public libraries have always been a part of our lives in the United States, we tend to take them for granted - that is until we visit a third world country and realize that many people have nowhere to go for books and computer usage.

Some of Gail and Bill's neighbors in Evergreen have set up the Frasier Book Fund at the Evergreen National Bank.

If you are interested in contributing to this worthy cause, a check in any amount would be welcome. Please make it out to the Frasier Book Fund and send it to Bud O'Leary, 29491 Fairway Drive, Evergreen, Colorado 80439.

Betty Astle,Barbara McEldowney, and Bud and Elaine O'Leary are heading up this effort and are thankful for the generous help of the mountain community. They are making sure that all donations are acknowledged and sent on to Gail and Bill's account in Jamaica. Gail and Bill sent this picture with the caption: "Thank You, Evergreen." They and their students are very grateful!