AND lAwNDAle News The Weekly Newspaper of Lawndale Herald Publications - Inglewood, Hawthorne, Lawndale, El Segundo, Torrance & Manhattan Beach Community Newspapers Since 1911 - Circulation 30,000 - Readership 60,000 (310) 322-1830 - August 16, 2012 Inside Preschoolers Receive Free BooksSummer Reading Program Helps This Issue A Student’s Perspective...2 Calendar...............................3 Until August 31, Los Angeles Universal Pre- school (LAUP) has joined JetBlue Airways Classifieds ...........................3 and PBS SoCal to promote early literacy through the Summer Reading Initiative. Register on the Soar With Reading website and LAUP will receive a book donation Community Briefs ..............3 for each registration. Age-appropriate books will then be distributed to children in need. Photo courtesy of LAUP. For more information, interested persons may visit Food ......................................7 www.soarwithreading.com Hawthorne Happenings ...2 Legals .............................9-11 Newspaper Fun..................8 Police Reports....................3 Click of the Mouse Puts Much-Needed New Politically Speaking...........4 Books in the Hands of Children Courtesy of LAUP Good reading skills are the foundation for California are encouraged to visit www. JetBlue is looking to donate $200,000 worth Smile Awhile.......................6 all future learning. In fact, research tells us it’s soarwithreading.com and enter their name, of books nationwide to children in need, and best to build a strong early literacy foundation zip code and favorite children’s book. For as of today, they are at $109,980 thanks to in children before they start kindergarten. every entry, JetBlue through partner Barefoot people going online and entering their name, Sports ...................................5 That’s why getting books into the hands of Books will donate an age-appropriate book zip and favorite children’s book. The more children at an early age is necessary to their to LAUP to be given to a child in need. people enter, the better the chance of more life-long learning success. Research has found that there is only one books being donated to the local organiza- “Strong literacy and language skills help age-appropriate book for every 300 children tions but there are only two weeks are left build a young child’s self esteem,” said Marsol from low-income neighborhoods. That needs to enter. The goal is to inspire every child Ward, director of The Academy for Early to change, and programs like Soar with to get excited about reading. Learning in Inglewood. “But if children Reading are making a difference. “Reading is fundamental and helps the Weekend in storytelling and in books, which can lead 2. Type in your name, zip code and favorite branch off to other things,” Ward said. It’swhole child, and once you get them interestedin something they like in a book, they’llHere’s how to help make a difference:1. Visit www.SoarWithReading.com.don’t receive exposure to reading in theirhome, we see them not acquiring an interest Forecast to a delay in reading skills.” children’s book. with reading.”•a great thing to watch a child fall in love3. Hit enter.While many local preschool programs are doing their part to expose children to a love of reading, it’s vital that a child has access to Friday help them develop a love of reading. Lawndale’s Legacyage-appropriate books throughout the day to Partly “I have friends where literacy wasn’t em- Cloudy they’re struggling big time and it has greatly By Councilmember James H. OsborneA series of images and stories about Lawndale’s pastphasized in their home, and now as adults, 87˚/68˚ affected their life,” Ward noted. A program designed to help put books into the hands of children is currently underway by JetBlue and PBS SoCal, which have Saturday to children in need. For every “favoriteteamed up to provide age-appropriate books Partly book” submitted on the website JetBlue will Cloudy geles Universal Preschool (LAUP) has been-donate a book to children in need. Los An 86˚/70˚ chosen as the local organization to receive a substantial donation of books through an initiative called “Soar With Reading.” Visit www.soarwithreading.com for summer literacy Sunday resources for your family and to post your child’s favorite book online. Partly LAUP is a non-profit network of more Cloudy than 325 preschool sites that was established to fund a free or low-cost high-quality 80˚/65˚ preschool education to the children of Los Angeles County. This image, taken in 1915, is of the Ladies Work Circle of the Lawndale Congregational Church. Until Aug. 31, residents in Southern
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