The Estes Valley Sunrise Rotary Club is proud to run the Plant a Book, Grow a Child program, presenting Scott Applegate, a club member and one of the program’s founders, with a check for the cost of this year’s program--$5,200. The program is in its 8th year and started with a vision that every local child who visits the Estes Park Elementary School book fair should have the chance to leave with a book of their own to foster a love of learning and literacy.
The Estes Valley Sunrise Rotary Club is proud to run the Plant a Book, Grow a Child program, presenting Scott Applegate, a club member and one of the program’s founders, with a check for the cost of this year’s program--$5,200. The program is in its 8th year and started with a vision that every local child who visits the Estes Park Elementary School book fair should have the chance to leave with a book of their own to foster a love of learning and literacy.
The program represents an amazing partnership between the Rotary club (funding the program), the Elementary School teachers (selecting students), and the school librarian (coordinating the entire program, and also selecting students). Jen Maley, who replaced Debbie Holmes as librarian after her retirement this year, is excited to run the program during the book fair—it leads to a lot of happy, smiling faces.