P.O. Box 1164 Valerie Gilreath, Co-chair Cartersville, GA 30120 Maria Floyd, Co-Chair www.bartowliteracycouncil.org Carmen Sims, Secretary bartowliteracycouncil@gmail.com Doug Belisle, Treasurer Like us on @BartowLiteracyCouncil

Thank You to Century Bank for sponsoring the Bartow Literacy Council at the $2,500 level.

These two Little Libraries are the latest installed by the Check Up Check Out committee! They are located at Cartersville Pediatric Associates and Harbin Clinic Pediatrics in Cartersville.

May 2018

We’ve purchased ten newspaper boxes from Self Salvage Store to be converted into Little Libraries. If you have an idea about where to locate one, let us know!

Thank you to Kim Dennis, Linary Kingdon, Sharon Cannon and Joan Maples (left-to-right beginning in back row) for volunteering at BLESS weekend on April 21st at the Allatoona Resource Center.

Photo credit: Randy Parker

We held our first fundraiser on April 28th in partnership with the Bookmobile-Reading to go places! Thank you to all those who attended and those who donated their time, money, and/or energy to make the event a success. Special thanks to Chaz and Georgia Holt for hosting us, to the Culinary Team: Cortney Hultman, Sean Pruitt, Jeff Ross, and Mary Oreskovich for an incredible meal, to Mike Yrabedra of Yabdab Inc. for designing the app used for the silent auction, to Cade Miller for designing the event website, to Zach Brown for acting as event photographer, and to the fundraising committee (pictured on the next page) for dreaming this into existence.

Left: Chef Cortney Hultman (left) puts finishing touches on the night’s main course. Above: Randi Sonenshine speaks to attendees about the importance of early language development and early reading.

Photo credits: Zach Brown

Valerie Gilreath (left) welcomes everyone. Doug Belisle (right) was the night’s emcee.

Thank you to the Cartersville Service League

for awarding a grant to the Bartow Literacy Council as part of their annual grant cycle! The Cartersville Service League distributed over $43,000 to 23 organizations.

Summer reading programs Kick off in May

Many Literacy Council agencies conduct summer reading programs, including the Bartow County Library System, Rollins Child Development

Center, and the Bookmobile. In addition to those, we’re partnering with the Bartow County Summer Feeding Program to deliver books to meal sites across Bartow County throughout June and July.

The Bartow Literacy Council participated in the 10th Annual Women’s Expo on March 24th. It was great to share information with community members, and we registered 18 children for Imagination Library.

Thank you again to the sponsors that made the evening possible:

Presenting sponsor:

Scholastic sponsors:

Literacy support sponsor:

Thank you to the Fundraising Committee who planned and organized a wonderful event!

Above: Fundraising committee members pose in front of the Bookmobile: (left-to-right) Abbey Culverhouse, Kaylee Klewein, Amy Morgan, Charissa Pritchett, Vicky Durham, Regina Shaw (co-chair), Hannah Hart, Deena Stewart, Kim Bowen, Barbara Terry (co-chair), Justine Tidwell. Photo credit: Zach Brown

If you are interested in VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES or partnering with the Bartow Literacy Council in other ways, please contact us at bartowliteracycouncil@gmail.com. If you have a business and would like to invest in our program, we would love to discuss sponsorship opportunities with you.

Thank you for your interest in the Bartow Literacy council We appreciate your support!

P.O. Box 1164 Cartersville, GA 30120 www.bartowliteracycouncil.org

Thank you to our 2018 annual business sponsors!

And thank you to our community partners!