Press release regarding Wilsonville Imagination Library For release February 13, 2018 Contact: janrippey@gmail.com Donors honored for supporting Wilsonville Imagination Library for 6 years “Every child who is enrolled in Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library that I’ve talked to is excited about reading and about getting something in the mail,” shares Hilly Alexander, board member of Wilsonville Public Library Foundation and library volunteer extraordinaire. Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library (DPIL) is a book-gifting outreach that encourages parents to read to…
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We’ve had a good year. Deborah Gitlitz, our Outreach Librarian, has been making contact throughout the City to parent groups, apartment houses, and anywhere else folks gather to take early literacy messages to families. She has been visiting a Head Start program at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. She’s been meeting with Hispanic parents at Boeckman Creek Primary. And she’s been an important Spanish language resource for the library, including building our Spanish language collections. This year…
Jan Rippey is holding a birthday cake to celebrate the 4th Anniversary of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library in Wilsonville. There are currently about 700 Wilsonville kids signed up to receive books once a month until they turn 5 years old. Over the last 4 years nearly 500 kids have graduated from the program. The program was brought to the City by the Kiwanis Club of Wilsonville. It receives significant funding from Joe Restic of Wilsonville Orthodontics, the…