Dog Pen Pals Encourage Kids to Read
By WAOW Television Ben Zitouni • Feb 5, 2021 Credit WAOW Television With the hope of instilling the love of reading in young children, the T.B. Scott Free Library has started a puppy pen pal program for the month of February. Mark Mehlos, who is a local therapy dog handler, along with his retrievers Kiva and Tucker will be part of the program. The goal is to get 50 preschool aged children and 50 school aged children in the Merrill School District to send a valentine to the dogs. "It's the promoting of reading, my mother read to me at a young age and it just really helped ...
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