[ShareTompkins] Fwd: Family Reading Partnership - 3 important announcements!

[Shira Golding]

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> From: Karen Powers <karen at familyreading.org>
> Date: April 13, 2011 2:16:09 PM EDT
> To: Human Service Coaltion <tc-hsc-l at cornell.edu>
> Subject: Family Reading Partnership - 3 important announcements!
> Reply-To: Karen Powers <karen at familyreading.org>
>
> Banking on Books!
>
> Tompkins Trust Company is launching its 2nd annual "Banking on  
> Books," a children's book drive to support Family Reading  
> Partnership's Bright Red Bookshelf program.
>
> Everyone in the community is invited to donate gently used  
> children's books, from April 18th through April 29, at any Trust  
> Company location in Tompkins County.  Books will be available free  
> for families on 30 Bright Red Bookshelves located throughout  
> Tompkins County, including new shelves at food pantries.
>
> Remember, there should never be a children's book that is lonely!
>
> Please visit familyreading.org for a complete list of year round  
> donation sites and bookshelf locations. For Tompkins Trust Company  
> locations, visit www.tompkinstrust.com.
>
> Volunteer Readers Needed
>
> Do you enjoy reading with children? Do you appreciate the importance  
> of books in young lives? If so, Family Reading Partnership invites  
> you to join our corps of WIC Readers! Our volunteer readers interact  
> with children and families around books when they come for their  
> appointment at WIC (Women-Infants-Children, a nutritional support  
> program).  In this waiting room setting, volunteers share books with  
> children, while modeling for parents fun ways to read aloud.   
> Volunteers also converse with parents about the value of reading  
> together as a family.
>
> Interested persons are invited to attend a lunchtime orientation on  
> Wednesday, April 27, 11:00 - 1:00 at Family Reading Partnership's  
> office on 54 Gunderman Rd.  For more information and to register,  
> please contact Mary Milne, Family Reading Partnership at 277-8602.
>
> FRP Note Cards!
>
> "Read to Me!" note cards are now for sale in local stores and all  
> proceeds will support Family Reading Partnership's "Read to Me"  
> banners that decorate our community, and the many other programs  
> that encourage families to read aloud to their young children.
>
> The 5"X7" cards feature beautiful "Read to Me!" images of reading  
> together. There are 2 sets of cards, one featuring families reading  
> together and one featuring animals. You can find them at: Purity Ice  
> Cream, Jillian's Drawers, The Cat's Pajamas, La Tourelle, August  
> Moon Spa, Buffalo Street Books, GreenStar Coop, and Ithaca Coffee.  
> Thanks to these outlets, all proceeds go to Family Reading  
> Partnership.  For more information call 607-277-8602.
>
>

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