Do you want to help promote reading and literacy to your community?
The “United We Read” project kicked off April 1, 2018. The program is an effort aimed at helping to promote and encourage reading and literacy across Oktibbeha, Choctaw, Webster and Winston counties. The project is coordinated by the United Way of North Central Mississippi in partnership with the Rotary Club of Louisville and Winston County.
Community members are asked to donate slightly used fiction or nonfiction books – either paperback or hardcover – they no longer want or need. Donors should not bring magazines, used activity books or reference books such as encyclopedias or college textbooks.
Collection bins for book donations are at the following locations: The Jewel Shoppe, Winston Furniture Company, Tabor Drugs, Stephanie’s Shenanigans and Winston County Courthouse.
Once collected, volunteers will take the books to a clearinghouse at location to be sorted according to reading level/age group and prepared for redistribution at “The Great United We Read Book Giveaway” event to be held at the Winston County Library from 9 a.m. to noon on April 21.
The book giveaway event will provide children, youth and adults an opportunity to select books they can read during the summer months. Any books remaining after the “Great United We Read Book Giveaway” will be donated to the Winston County Public Library for the Friends of the Library group to use in its monthly book sale fundraiser.
For more information about the “United We Read” project or to volunteer, call the United Way offices at (662) 323-3830 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. or contact Julie Cunningham, Winston County Chancery Clerk.
