12/23/2025
🎁Help Save Cal Books in Redding!!!🎁
🙏They need a ✨Christmas Miracle ✨🙏
The flood caused damage to it.
🎄 A Christmas Miracle for Cal's Books 🎄
If you’ve ever watched It’s a Wonderful Life, you remember that quiet moment when an entire town comes together to save something that truly matters.
Right now, Cal’s Books is living that moment.
After the recent storms, Cal’s Books suffered severe flooding that caused major damage throughout the store. What should be a season filled with warmth, stories, and joy has instead become a time of uncertainty for this longtime local treasure.
But just like Bedford Falls, our community is showing up.
A GoFundMe has been created to help Cal’s Books recover, rebuild, and keep its doors open. Every donation, share, and message of support is a reminder of what makes our community special — neighbors helping neighbors, readers supporting a place that has meant so much to so many.
If Cal’s Books has ever given you a quiet afternoon, a great read, a childhood memory, or that peaceful feeling only a bookstore can bring, this is one of those moments where the community can help change the ending.
Because sometimes the greatest gifts aren’t wrapped —
they’re given together.
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📚 Cal’s Books has been a true local gem for years, a place many in our community cherish. This iconic bookstore needs us now more than ever!
🗣️A huge thank you to local musician and podcaster Ron Giesecke of Box Number Seven for starting the GoFundMe to help save Cal’s Books.
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https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-cals-books-a-redding-cultural-touchstone
🗣️Huge SHOUT-OUT TO Kynna Jane for letting us know they needed help❤️❤️❤️
🤩 Shout-out and thank you to Michelle Morrow, Michelle Elizabeth, and Evonne Williams for sharing the photos that helped tell this story.