TITLE

Foster Grandparent reading program

PUB. DATE
November 1997
SOURCE
Long Island Business News (7/1993 to 5/2009);11/10/97 Supplement Philanthropic, Vol. 44 Issue 45, p38PA
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Discloses the launch of a recruitment drive for the Foster Grandparent Family Literacy Program for schoolchildren in Huntington, New York. Initiative by Town Supervisor Frank P. Perone to bring senior citizen volunteers together with youngsters in reading program; Program objectives.
ACCESSION #
9711252077

Tags: LITERACY programs;  SCHOOL children

 

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