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NJLM Educational Foundation, Reach Out and Read, and Mayors Book Club Event
The New Jersey League of Municipalities’ Mayors Book Club distributed hundreds of books to the City of Trenton today and hosted a reading session with Trenton Mayor Douglas Palmer. Trenton is the seventh and final New Jersey municipality to implement a Mayors Book Club pilot program. The program is funded by the NJLM Educational Foundation through a generous grant from the Verizon Foundation. The event was hosted by Montgomery Committeewoman and NJLM Foundation President Louise Wilson. Haskell Berman of the HealthCare Institute presented the books on behalf of Reach Out and Read and Children’s Futures organizations. The event was highlighted by Mayor Palmer reading to the Grant School preschool class of Ms. Christine McKinney and her students: David Argueta, Sharon Barber, Rosemary Gardener and Zaquay Cullers. Mayor Palmer offered thanks to all the organizations involved in establishing the pilot program and getting books into the children’s hands.
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