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LVA group
marks its
2nd year
By LEE BIRD
Imitinirti Neva Contributing Writer
Members and volunteers of the local literacy group, LVA Rappahannock, will gather at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 3 at the Courthouse to mark the completion of its second year of operation as an affiliate of Literacy Volunteers of America Inc.
Rose Ann Sharp, executive director of the Child Care and Learning Center, will address the group on the subject of family literacy, which makes the joy of reading and learning a family enterprise to the benefit of parents and children alike. The public is invited to this meeting.
In its first beginnings, the local literacy effort was centered in the old library, where tutors and learners crowded in among the surrounding bookshelves, with dim lighting, to teach and learn both basics and high school fundamentals.
This past year, the group moved into larger, well tarnished, and amply lit quarters in the basement of the new county library - space made available through the generosity of the Library Board. With the volunteer effort of Ted Chapman, John Hartline, Ethel Bailey and Lee Bird, the walls and ceiling were painted, the window curtained, and furniture, both donated and surplus, installed. And when the directors at the first board meeting in November complained of the cold rising from the cement floor, a committee, with delighted unanimity, selected carpeting which was promptly laid, putting an end to the problem of cold feet.
Also, during the year, a grant application was submitted to 7-Eleven Stores, which resulted in a grant of
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