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MURFREESBORO, TN - Read To Succeed (RTS) held its 20th annual Read To Bee 6th Grade Spelling Bee on Friday, April 12th at Patterson Park Community Center. The community event was sponsored by Redstone Federal Credit Union. RTS Executive Director, Jolene Radnoti, kicked off the evening by warmly welcoming everyone and emphasizing the high value of literacy. Twelve 6th graders from Murfreesboro City and Rutherford County schools came together to compete for the title of 2024 Read To Bee Champion. ...

ABC11 Together Perspectives for March features segments on National Reading Month, The Triangle LUNGe Forward 5K and Durham Crop Hunger Walk.

PRESS RELEASE FROM UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT MARTIN ---- 24th ANNUAL CIVIL RIGHTS CONFERENCE BEGINS FEB. 1

Local Altrusa International organization offers literacy event for area children.

Honor but also civility. barbara bush, if you did an event for her, i once did a literacy event for her on rosa parks and immediately got a nice note from her coming afterwards. she did that a thousand times over. i think shes our most popular first lady, you know, along with michelle obama in recent times. theres no dents in her armor. everybody liked her, and its because of her candor, her wicked sense of humor, her about to be matriarchal with her family. but she didnt suffer lightly, but her...

And it seemed like -- >> yeah, the last time i come to one of the last times i saw her was a year ago last december when i went over to the bush library to mc part of the pearl harbor commemorations. the first night i was there, she was not. president bush 41 hosted a dinner for the people who were participating. she was often involved in a literacy event with her son, neil. that spoke to her commitment to that cause which he never wavered on. i would simply say, my final thought about her was t...

>> she had a pet issue, literacy, she had a number of causes she supported, literacy was the one that was most conspicuous and i went to be the emcee at the 75th anniversary of pearl harbor a year ago last december and that was at the bush library, bush 41 library in texas and the first night we were there, she was not there because she was away at a literacy event with her son neil. there was a cause that she lost sight of. the springer spaniels were out of the picture and she had a couple of t...

Reagan, mrs. bush is all about literacy. >> one of the last times i saw her was last december when i went to the bush library to mc part of the pearl harbor commemorations. she was not, president bush 41 hosted a dinner, she was off in the literacy event. that spoke to her commitment to that cause she never wavered on but my final thought about her was the example she said as a mother and first lady, what she is remembered by, the woman they call the several -- silver fox, someone we all looked ...

About that and i think that the family very much continues to have that legacy move on and to grow. it is not going to end with barbara bush. >> you know, a year ago, last december, president bush 41 wanted to do something special for the 75 anniversary of pearl harbor and so they had an event over here at the library in college station, texas, they asked me to mc part of it which i was honored to do and the night before there was a dinner and cocktail party, honoring senator dole, of course, no...

>> i dont think theres much doubt about that. she had a pet issue, literacy, she had a number of causes she supported, literacy was the one that was most conspicuous and i went to be the emcee at the 75th anniversary of pearl harbor a year ago last december and that was at the bush library, bush 41 library in texas, and the first night we were there, she was not there because she was away at a literacy event with her son neil. there was a cause that she never lost sight of. by the time i saw her...