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Press Release
For Immediate Release August 21, 2018
Contact: Gladys Bell
Email: [email protected] Tel: 757-727-5185
READING IS GRAND! CELEBRATING GRAND-FAMILIES TELLING OUR STORIES @ YOUR LIBRARY
BCALA announces Reading is Grand! Celebrating Grand-Families Telling Our Stories @ Your Library grant winners
NEW ORLEANS - During the ALA conference in June, Karen Lemmons, chair of the 2018 Reading is Grand! Celebrating Grand-Families Telling Our Stories @ Your Library selection committee announced four libraries will receive the 2018 Reading is Grand! Grant. Reading is Grand! is a celebration of the important role African American grandparents and older adults play in the lives of children. It is through their infinite wisdom and experience
that children learn the unique cultural and familial values that help them grow into valuable contributors to the community.
THE GRANT-WINNING LIBRARIES — Broward County Library, Fort Lauderdale, FL; Kinard Elementary School, Clover, SC; Middle College High School, Memphis, TN; and Uniondale Public Library, Uniondale, NY— were selected based on the level of creativity and originality of program criteria, action plans, level of involvement of grandparents in the activities, and impact of the program on the community.
The four winning programs are as follows:
BROWARD COUNTY LIBRARY, FORT LAUDERDALE, FL.
The theme, “Cooking with Carver Ranches: History, Literacy, and Love @ the Library” is a several months long new initiative of the Carver Ranches Library in partnership with the City of West Park. The first phase of this initiative will take place during the month of September in celebration of Grand Families and Grandparents Day. Beginning September 4, and for the next three weeks, pre-school age children and grandparents will read books together. Grandparents will share stories of growing up in the Carver Ranches Community as well as share a favorite recipe from their childhood that has a special memory for them. This interaction will continue throughout the second phase, in which the grandparents and youth together will prepare the grandparents’ recipes. The recipes and stories will be compiled into a story/cookbook.
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