Book Drive Promotes Literacy in America's Youth

Have you noticed the two large boxes in our foyer filled with books?  BRES has been participating in the book drive sponsored by Johna Edmonds 2012 Miss Garner.  Ms. Edmonds is a contestant in the Miss North Carolina Pagent and she is running on a literacy platform.  Her mission is to raise literacy rates in youth and to collect 10,000 books to donate to the UNC Chapel Hill and Duke Children's Hospital. 

I'm pleased to announce that Ms. Blackmon's 5th Grade Class collected 1,216 books and Ms. Tremblay's class collected 481 books!  Congratulations to these classes and every class who participated in the book drive. Thank you to Ms. Bishop for being the point of contact for this book drive.  You really kept the staff updated and informed. 

 I took a couple pictures of the books as they were being collected.  The two boxes were emptied and filled many times over the past month.  Thank you to everyone who cleaned out bookshelves and made donations.  We appreciate it!