‘Raise A Reader’ Boosts Local Literacy Programs
Prince George, BC – Prince George Public Library spokesperson, Andrea Palmer, says Prince George has truly proven itself to be a giving city – more than $11-thousand dollars was raised in just two-hours during this morning’s annual Raise a Reader campaign…
Palmer says the provincial government is matching a portion of the funds, so $16-thousand dollars in funds will be available to support local literacy organizations and projects for children in the city.
More than 120 volunteers, including City Councillors and players with the Prince George Cougars, took to the street to hand out newspapers in exchange for donations at various locations across the city. The Raise a Reader Committee is sending out a big ‘thank you’ to sponsors: UNBC, CNC, Integris Credit Union, Telus, the Nechako Rotary, the Smokehouse at the Native Friendship Centre, and the Friends of the Library.
Palmer says applications for funding for non-profit children’s literacy groups will be available at the library starting October 5th.
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Lotsa dough needs to be raised due to the inability of teachers and parents to instill the most important aspect of school? i.e. Reading. Very very sad. And telling. How many more years and/or generations will this go on. IMO. Never had this fund raising effort in the sixties when I went to school. Ah, the good old days. Does this include teaching texters of this up and coming generation how to spell and use punctuation? I certainly hope so.
The off-loading of public school expenses from the province to charities and donation campaigns continues.
Yes Habinger, there was a time when the provincial government actually full funded public education in this province, those days are gone!
Widespread off-loading of social and health care cost is being encouraged by the province through the guise of fund matching. This is why every single day of the year there is some kind of fundraising happening.
It has got to the point where there are just too many causes for me to even consider donating money to any more. Welcome to a world where if there is no business case for it, it does not get full funded by the government.
the 60s must have truly been the perfect time to be alive, from all the aged posters on this site. it was a time when parents were perfect, students excelled, and crime was non-existent. corporal punishment was accepted and nobody raised an eyebrow when you ‘disciplined’ your wife or kids. there were no learning disorders, all the students were white, and Aboriginal people stayed out of things and kept their mouths shut. resources were there for the taking, and the land and sea scapes could be raped at will. after all, god gave us the resources so we could use them right? and since everyone was christian and went to church, the community was homogenous and dissent did not exist. ah, the god old days.
or, people like harbinger can wake up and understand that things weren’t better then. society has progressed, woken up, to so many societal and environmental issues. despite your attack on students today, a kid in grade 3 has a breadth of knowledge and an understanding of the world and technology that you didn’t have in grade 12. are there problems? of course there are. are teachers today trained to recognize and target those problems? yes. do they work closely with parents to address these problems? yes, teachers work more closely today with parents than ever before. sometimes we need to look at the positives in what we have today, instead of constantly harkening back to some golden age that didn’t ever really exist.
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