Social - December 2003

Success by 6 seeks gift of literacy

Published December 5, 2003

Literacy remains a goal year-round.

Success By 6 and the Lincoln County Public Library are sponsoring an Angel Tree project to collect books to donate to children in our community from birth to age five.

Success By 6 is a United Way initiative funded through Bank of America to ensure that all children are ready to succeed by the time they begin school.

The main focus is helping parents and caregivers instill a love of reading in their children. Reading aloud to children is the best way to achieve this goal. Children who have books of their own at home are more likely to develop a love of reading than those who have little or no exposure to books.

With this in mind, the program includes gathering new and gently used picture books to distribute to children in the community for Christmas.

Silver angels are for new books; bronze angels are for slightly used books.

Gold angels are for those who would like to contribute to a related effort; the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. A tax-deductible $30 donation will provide a new book every month for a year for a child of your choice or a child in the community whose family cannot afford the cost. Books are mailed directly to the children.

Angel tress will be in all the Lincoln County Public Library locations — the Jonas Library in Lincolnton, the Florence S. Shanklin Branch in Denver, the West Lincoln Branch in Vale and on the Bookmobile through Dec. 23.

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