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August 19, 2011

STAFF REPORT Commercial-News The Commercial-News Fri Aug 19, 2011, 01:15 PM CDT

DANVILLE — The Danville Public Library, Danville District 118 and United Way of the Danville area will celebrate a summer of reading from 9:30-11:30 a.m. Saturday on the library lawn during the Farmers’ Market. The event is for children and their families.

At 9:30 the Children’s Department will offer stories and crafts for the children who participated in the “Midsummer Knight’s Read” program. At 10 a.m. will be a celebration of the children who participated in the Danville District 118 Accelerated Reader summer reading program. There will be a story time and brief demonstration of how to read to a child.

Three prizes will be awarded to the top readers in each grade, K through five.

The reading celebration will also give parents in Vermilion County and Fountain County, Ind., the first opportunity to register their children, ages birth to five, for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library program. With the support of local sponsors, the Imagination Library sends a free book every month to each registered child until their fifth birthday.

The program is sponsored by Provena United Samaritans Medical Center, Mervis Family Foundation, Danville Breakfast Kiwanis Club, Carle, Success by 6 and United Way of Danville Area, Inc.

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