Seven Meadows February 2018
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Library<br />
News<br />
BEST BUDDIES MASQUERADE GALA<br />
AND FASHION SHOW<br />
Reagan Kallina and Alyssa Tran represented<br />
<strong>Seven</strong> Lakes High School Best Buddies at the<br />
Best Buddies Masquerade Gala and Fashion<br />
show held in downtown Houston in November.<br />
They walked the runway wearing fashions<br />
provided by Elaine Turner. The event brought<br />
in over $230,000 - money that will be used<br />
to help Best Buddies Texas expand in local<br />
elementary schools, middle schools and high<br />
schools in <strong>2018</strong>. Best Buddies is the world’s<br />
largest organization dedicated to ending the<br />
social, physical and economic isolation of<br />
the 200 million people with intellectual and<br />
developmental disabilities (IDD). For more<br />
information and how to become involved, go<br />
to www.bestbuddies.org.<br />
FORT BEND COUNTY LIBRARIES (FBCL)<br />
Public Information Office - 281-633-4734<br />
www.fortbend.lib.tx.us<br />
FAMILY READING CLUB - THROUGH-MARCH 3 RD<br />
This six-week program is designed to encourage families to read, learn and have fun together.<br />
Families participate in the program by reading books and completing optional “challenges”<br />
that can be done at home. All Fort Bend County families are eligible to participate. Families<br />
who complete the program by reading 36 books - 6 books per week - are eligible to receive<br />
a book bag for the family and will have their named entered into a drawing for a $50 dining<br />
gift card, donated by the Friends of the Library. Each branch library will have a drawing for<br />
the gift card on March 5 th . A single registration is required for each participating family.<br />
An adult (parent or guardian) is asked to register the family online by going to the library’s<br />
website (www.fortbend.lib.tx.us) and clicking on the “Family Reading Club Sign-Up” image.<br />
Families may also register at one of the libraries in the Fort Bend County library system.<br />
Upon registering, families will then have their own online page on which to record their<br />
books or reading time. There is no charge to join the Family Reading Club. The program is<br />
sponsored by Fort Bend County Libraries and the Friends of the Library organizations that<br />
support the county library system.<br />
26 <strong>February</strong> <strong>2018</strong> | Community Newsletter