Imagination Library In The Media
Good Ideas by Chris Porter
Posted January 3, 2014 at 6:58pm
By Chris Porter
Here’s my “Good Ideas” column, which is running Saturday. I moved it up a day because of the fundraiser. If you’ve been wanting to spend your Christmas money on a book, tomorrow would be a good day!
Imagining alive: Helping kids read
By LAURA A. SCHMIDPCH Editor
Shawn Smith got more than he bargained for when Sherrie Moody read about his need to partner with a local nonprofit organization in order to start up a Charlotte County chapter of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.The Imagination Library program mails a specially selected free book each month to each child signed up, from birth to age 5.
Stirring kids’ imaginations in Charlotte County
By PCH Editor Laura A. Schmid
The soft-spoken, Southern-drawling Tennessee native was shocked when he
arrived in Port Charlotte and found out that
Dolly Parton’s popular Imagination Library, which was started in his
home state in 1996, does not have a chapter in
Charlotte County.
So he decided to start it up himself, on top of managing his new salon,
Hair by Shawn and Company Salon and Spa, which
opened in Charlotte Harbor this past year.
Honor, Remember the Youngest 9/11 Victims Today
By CHRISTY FEINBERG Senior Writer
Bernard Curtis Brown II loved school more than most 11-year-old
kids.
“He lived to go to school,” his mom told The New York Times. “If he was
sick, he would always say he was feeling better
so he could get to school.”
Twelve years ago, Bernard put on his new Air Jordan sneakers and boarded
American Flight 77. He was just 11. Just a kid
in his new Kicks excited about being selected for a National Geographic
Society marine research project in Southern
California.