Re: what are you reading?

Melody....that sounds like a wonderful school project. How did the school find out about the inner-city school and the pen pal thing? I'd like to recommend that to our schools. Fab idea.



From: "Melody" <mhobertm@excite.com>
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Subject: Re: [CHAT] what are you reading?
Date: Fri,  5 Dec 2003 01:49:32 -0500 (EST)

Particulary when you consider the plights of some schools...my
daughter's 6th grade class does a pen pal exchange with a school in the
Chicago area ( very inner city) and they have no school library at all
and most of the kids in that class have never been to a public library.
My daughter's class just spent several weeks putting on a book
drive/fundraiser and one of the teacher's sons was going to deliver the
books after Thanksgiving...for some of the kids in that school, those
books will be the first books they have ever owned themselves. I have a
good friend who was a teacher in California for some time and she
related similar stories about her students, many of whom didn't even
have crayons and color books in the house let alone an actual book to
read...sad, sad, sad.



Melody, IA (Z 5/4)

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
--Albert Einstein

 --- On Thu 12/04,  < kmrsy@comcast.net > wrote:
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To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 16:21:08 +0000
Subject: Re: [CHAT] what are you reading?

These looked to be older library books. We do have a Friends of
the<br>Library organization here too, doing much the same thing. My
guess is<br>that it had something to do with a complete revamping of our
library<br>system here. The library wanted $15 million to enlarge the
main library,<br>improve existing satellite libraries and completely
rebuild a few<br>satellites. This was another one of those
uproar/petition things here in<br>Fort Wayne. People will spend anything
to expand sporting arenas, but<br>libraries? Well we won and the
expansion is going on now and will be for<br>some time. I think that
with this huge overhaul there may have been too<br>many books to dispose
of and too labor an money intensive to offer to<br>the public. Too much
hassle and $freight$ to try to send where they<br>could be used. But it
is still a shame. These books were usable.<br><br><br>Kitty<br>> Horror
of horrors, Kitty! For years I was the Pres of the Friends of the<br>>
Cedar Rapids public library organization, and ran the annual booksale
for<br>> about a decade. We have around 80,000 books to offer to the
public every<br>> year - ALL donated to us - and none for more than
$2.00 for an adult<br>> hardback. Proceeds from the sale go back to the
library for computer<br>> equipment, etc. Why would someone just toss
good books? We get a lot of<br>> junk (moldy, torn, etc) that we
recycle, but what you saw is just nuts.<br>> I'm afraid I would have
been stopping to pick them up.<br>> <br>> >I saw a sad sight today. On
my way to work I saw books lying in the road.<br>> Then more books. Then
piles of books, for a good 2 miles. Then I came up<br>> to a huge dump
truck that was fully loaded with them and had been losing<br>> them all
the way down Tillman Road on his way to the dump.<br>> <br>> Kitty<br>>
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