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Penny For Your Thoughts: We Love To Read January 2020 was the first time I heard the words “essential workers.” In early meetings with Emergency Services, I was informed that if we needed to go into a county wide shut down, governmental services that were not considered essential would be closed. By the end of February we were pretty sure that the shutdown was imminent and the word essential became more defined. We don’t often think about the daily business of a county or town, we know that it usually runs smoothly – and when it doesn’t, residents have the ability to help bring abou...

Article content Little Free Libraries are becoming more and more prominent in locales across Lambton County and are popping up in the most unexpected of places. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Little Free Libraries popping up across Lambton County Back to video It’s an idea that took flight over 12 years ago in the city of Hudson, Wisconsin. Todd Bol built a miniature model of a one-room schoolhouse in honour of his teacher mother and filled it with books that people could take home with them to read at no cost. Little Free Libraries have sinc...

Library books, from shelves to neighborhoods Jeff Wadler at the Little Free Library in Spring Lake Park, Lincolnshire. He and his family set up the free-standing mini library as part of a project in memory of his wife, "Grandma Karen" Wadler. Courtesy of Vernon Area Public Library     When books are done being library books, sometimes they become Little Free Library books. Books are taken out of Vernon Area Public Library's collection when they are no longer being checked out or when they're replaced with new editions. Some of these withdrawn books get a second life as part of...

Let’s Read: NGO sets up libraries in outreach to children 8 Hrs Ago Let’s Read co-founder Suzette Cadiz reads to a girl at one of the NGO’s school libraries. Photo courtesy Suzette Cadiz - Ask Suzette Cadiz, co-founder of the NGO Let’s Read, about the key to education and she will tell you: “pleasure reading.” Decades of academic studies about reading back up her claims. Research shows that children who engage in pleasure reading excel academically. Yet most primary schools in TT have no libraries. Reading is not encouraged in schools, and many elementary teachers say they have n...

COHOES, N.Y. — With summer approaching and the weather getting warmer, it's the perfect time to grab a book and enjoy reading outdoors. Public parks in each of Cohoes's six