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Project Impact students gathered outside Mayor Van Johnson's office for the
Annual Read Across Apalachicola
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Today
marked the 6th consecutive year the City of Apalachicola's Project
Impact, Afterschool and Summer Enrichment Program have held ‘Read Across
Apalachicola’ during the annual spring break camp.
Read
Across Apalachicola, is an offshoot of ‘Read Across America’, which is held
each year on March 2, and also known as Dr. Seuss Day.
The
local program was implemented in 2010 by former Project Impact Director Faye
Johnson and carried on by new director Nadine Kahn and Site Coordinator Barbara
Lewis-Floyd and held a couple weeks after Read Across America.
The
event is a reading motivation and awareness tool to help create a fondness for reading.
Here in Apalachicola, kids from Project Impact travel across the city to meet
with local government officials, both indoors and outdoors where their
imaginations are ignited through the act of reading.
“I’m always honored by the opportunity to read
to our kids. This year I read from ‘Mistakes That Worked’, by Charlotte Foltz Jones.
It's was a book about forty familiar inventions and how they came to be. Inventions
like ice cream cones, maple syrup, popsicles, potato chips, ivory soap and paper
towel,” said Apalachicola Mayor Van Johnson.
“A lot of the great inventions that we use every
day, were actually stumbled upon by accident, and I wanted to share some of
those with our Project Impact students.”
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