From Staff Reports March is “Read Across America Month.” To mark the occasion, the Cumberland Cape Atlantic YMCA is sponsoring a contest to promote reading. The contest, for children ages 3 to 13, is offered at sites at where the YMCA provides childcare services, including elementary schools in Haleyville, Buena, Quinton, Collings Lakes, Deerfield, Cleary and Mullica Township. Three schools in Somers Point, charter schools in Millville and Vineland and the YMCA’s preschool are also participating. Parents were given links to record each book that their child reads or that has been read to them. When parents enter the books in the record they are linked as a chain. The YMCA’s goal is to see how long the chain can grow.