Aware February Template - Public Schools of Robeson County
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United Way <strong>of</strong> <strong>Robeson</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />
PSRC Employees Are Dancing with the <strong>Robeson</strong> <strong>County</strong> Stars<br />
Your vote for<br />
your favorite<br />
dancer is a vote<br />
for Literacy<br />
Gary Patrick Assist. Principal<br />
at Carroll Middle School.<br />
Five employees with<br />
the <strong>Public</strong><br />
<strong>Schools</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Robeson</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong> are<br />
hitting the<br />
dance<br />
floor<br />
Dr. Johnny Hunt<br />
for literacy at the second<br />
annual United Way <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Robeson</strong> <strong>County</strong>’s<br />
Dancing with the<br />
<strong>Robeson</strong> <strong>County</strong> Stars.<br />
Locally, United Way <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Robeson</strong> <strong>County</strong> provides<br />
funds to 18 agencies and<br />
65 programs working<br />
towards the goal <strong>of</strong><br />
Brooke Britt - English<br />
teacher at Lumberton High<br />
making life easier for<br />
many residents <strong>of</strong> the<br />
county. And the<br />
needs are<br />
many.<br />
Illiteracy has<br />
long been a<br />
problem for<br />
many<br />
residents,<br />
not only in<br />
<strong>Robeson</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong>, but<br />
also around<br />
the entire<br />
nation. In an<br />
Kewanda Davetta Merritt<br />
English/Language Arts<br />
Curriculum Supervisor<br />
effort to alleviate this<br />
problem here, <strong>Robeson</strong><br />
<strong>County</strong> United Way<br />
began a partnership in a<br />
globally successful<br />
program known as “Dolly<br />
Patron Imagination<br />
Library”. The program<br />
mails a brand new, age<br />
appropriate book each<br />
month to each enrolled<br />
child in the county from<br />
birth until they reached<br />
the age <strong>of</strong> five. You are<br />
urged to go to the<br />
website and vote for your<br />
favorite couple. It will<br />
cost $10 per vote, with all<br />
proceeds raised to go to<br />
the project. The second<br />
annual dance event will<br />
be held at Southeastern<br />
Agriculture Center<br />
(Farmer’s Market) on<br />
March 23th. There are<br />
10,000 children, 5 years<br />
old and younger eligible<br />
for the program in<br />
<strong>Robeson</strong> <strong>County</strong> and<br />
1300 children who are<br />
receiving books.<br />
Registration forms are<br />
available at the<br />
Lumberton Children’s<br />
Clinic or at the United<br />
Way <strong>of</strong>fice. The event<br />
raised $146,000<br />
last year and hopes to<br />
surpass those figures to<br />
<strong>of</strong>fer the library to more<br />
children. For more<br />
information on “Dolly<br />
Parton’s Imagination<br />
Library” go to their<br />
website at<br />
www.imaginationlibrary.com<br />
For more information or<br />
to vote for your favorite<br />
couple you can go to<br />
www.unitedwayrobeson.org.<br />
Kristen Stone - Principal at<br />
Peterson Elementary<br />
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