Quilted with Love

Beginning February 1, the Community Literacy Foundation will host “Quilted with Love,” a month-long online baby quilt auction. All proceeds from the auction will benefit the Foundation’s Rooted in Reading project.

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Run to Read Paved Her Way to the NYC Marathon

When local marathon runner Rachael Leslie stands up to speak to the crowd at our Run to Read 5K Run/Walk this Saturday, Oct. 14, it will bring her running experience full circle. She credits running the Run to Read 5K about 10 years ago with awakening the competitiveness that has led her to complete more than 20 marathons, including the Chicago marathon this past Sunday and, next month, the New York City Marathon.

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For Anyone with 'the Soul of an Artist'

Jackson and “The Rhino Suit” will be the featured author and book at this year’s Family Reading Night Friday, March 3, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at Washington Middle School. The free event is sponsored by the Community Literacy Foundation in partnership with the School District of Washington and the Washington Optimist Club.

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Nonfiction is NOT boring!

If you shy away from reading nonfiction because you are afraid it will be boring, fear no more! Most nonfiction bears no resemblance to textbooks you remember from school. Give nonfiction a chance to charm you.

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Stuck in a reading rut? Try something different.

It happens to the best of us. The love of reading is still there but nothing feels “right”. You wonder if you are being too picky. You start to doubt whether you even know yourself or your reading tastes anymore. These are just a few signs that it might be time to shake up your reading life and try something new.

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We are a community that reads!

This Area Is ‘Best-Read’ in the County!

It’s official. We are the Best-Read Community in America. The Community Literacy Foundation’s One More Page project crossed its “1 million pages read” goal line back in mid-August, and as of December 31, the count stood at more than 1,543,148 pages read.

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