Building Bookcases for Literacy
CCI is proud of the students at Beloit Memorial High School who planned and executed this bookcase building event for literacy. We are also excited that CCI associates, Seth and Justin, could lend their expertise to this wonderful cause. Be sure to join the students at the Beloit Public Library on May 11th for their book give-a-way and bookcase raffle!
BOOSTING LITERACY
Hillary Gavan/Beloit Daily News Beloit Memorial High School National Honor Society student Jorge Jurado-Garcia (right) gets help building from Corporate Contractors Inc. Foreman Seth Nathan. Jurado-Garcia and other students were building bookshelves to be raffled off at an upcoming literacy event for families.
April 15, 2019 at 9:57 am | By Hillary Gavan | Beloit Daily News
BELOIT – Beloit Memorial High School National Honor Society students have been rounding up books and shelves to help boost early literacy.
Student Gloria Heiss and fellow students will be hosting a book giveaway event from noon – 1 p.m. on May 11 at the Beloit Public Library. The free event will offer games, cookies and tables full of books to peruse. Heiss is expecting around 100 kids and parents. Around 1,000 books will be given away designed for children ages 3 to 12.
“They can grab anywhere from 10 to 15 books per family,” Heiss said.
Books such as “Dog Man” and “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” will be raffled off as well. Heiss said the $1,000 for the books came from the Hendricks Family Foundation and $500 came from Jeffrey Peterson of Geneva Supply in Delavan.
Hillary Gavan/Beloit Daily News Beloit Memorial High School National Honor Society students Rees Graves, Lisette Villalba and Jessica Chavez painted a bookshelf at CareerTek on Thursday evening to be raffled off at a book giveaway event they are organizing. The students want to be part of bolstering early literacy.
Heiss said she is hoping to improve Beloit School District academic performance through literacy. She said she wants to engage students and parents who will hopefully discover a love of reading.
“I want to get books into the hands of children,” Heiss said.
Although the students were excited to give away books, they said they wanted to do something more and decided to build and paint bookshelves to be raffled off at the end of the event.
On Thursday evening a group of 11 of the students were drilling, assembling and painting bookshelves with the help of Corporate Contractors Inc. carpenter Justin Dahl and foreman Seth Nathan at CareerTek. Each bookshelf was being decorated with themes such as “outer space,” “underwater” and Dr. Seuss’s book “All the Places You Will Go.” FULL STORY
