Posts Tagged ‘reading; lewiston ME; kiwanis’
October 4th, 2010
Andrew Harris, director of L/A Arts accepted helpful funds from Jan Dwinal, vice president of the Auburn-Lewiston Kiwanis and real estate agent at Millett Realty Coldwell Banker. The club is fulfilling a pledge to financially help and otherwise support art programs to children in our community. Harris said although it may be easy to cut programs like these from school budgets during rough economic times, kids still need to be exposed to the arts. While many kids learn in traditional classrooms, many need to be stimulated to learn by other means. Adding art to the mix helps insure all kids get the same chance. As proof of this theory, he shared, an activity calendar started with a printing of 500 copies and is now at 18,000. We have rich arts in our community and many do not know it. Our own Franco center has at times beaten out larger venues for internation artists. Over 5000 youths are served each and every year.
For more information about our local Kiwanis, go to www.auburnlewistonmainekiwanis.org. We are always looking for new members that want to help the children of the world, one at a time.
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Book program sponsors
July 20th, 2010
The Auburn/Lewiston Kiwanis Club has sponsored part of the summer reading challenge for kids this year. The goal is to get third and fourth graders to read 10 books each, and when accomplished, they get to keep a book of their choice, provided by Kiwanis. Almost 400 students have signed up so far. The reading program is open to all kids who hold a valid Auburn library card (also includes the town of Minot). Reading during the summer boosts and maintains a child’s literacy level, a real win-win for all! Pictured (right to left) is Jim Wilkins, Heather Runnels and Laurie Pinkham, all of the Auburn Public Library, and Doug Dwinal of the Kiwanis Club. For more information on the donation or about becoming a member of Kiwanis, contact www.KiwanisAuburnLewistonMaine.org.
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