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Posted: January 28, 2021 The Province of British Columbia has proclaimed Family Literacy Week (January 24-31) in British Columbia. Family Literacy Week is an annual B.C. campaign that recognizes the importance of family literacy. Family literacy means families learning together through everyday interactions in their lives; reading together, cooking together, talking together, singing together, playing together. Last year was the first East Kootenay wide Great Big Buddy Read. This event had older students paired with younger students to read together in schools across the East Kootenay. This year the restrictions from Covid made this impossible, but the importance of reading together is just as significant as ever. ....