{"id":16351,"date":"2015-06-16T12:48:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T16:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=16351"},"modified":"2015-06-16T18:32:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T22:32:23","slug":"united-way-hosts-book-drive-for-preschool-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=16351","title":{"rendered":"United Way hosts book drive for preschool students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><em><strong>Call to action &#8211; donations needed to help kids get ready for kindergarten<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The United Way of Chester County (UWCC) has issued a community call to action to help local children get ready for kindergarten in the fall.\u00a0 Sponsored by a grant from CCRES, UWCC\u2019s drive will get summer reading materials to public sites.<a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BOOKS2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-16355 size-medium\" style=\"margin: 4px;\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BOOKS2-300x258.jpg\" alt=\"BOOKS2\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BOOKS2-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/BOOKS2.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To view the recommended reading list visit\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.com\/magazine\/article\/50-books-child-read-kindergarten\/\">http:\/\/www.education.com\/magazine\/article\/50-books-child-read-kindergarten\/<\/a>. The donated books will be distributed to local Little Free Libraries located at Born Learning Trails that United Way of Chester County has installed at parks and schools; also to community libraries, and other summer program sites throughout Chester County. The goal is for families unable to purchase books to be able to read with their children over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>The collection will run from Monday, June 15, 2015 &#8211; Monday, June 29, 2015<b>.\u00a0 <\/b>Community members can bring donated books to the Summer Book Drive Collection Sites: YMCA of Greater Brandywine<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">\u2019<\/span>s Lionville, Jennersville, Oscar Lasko Youth Program and Brandywine branches; St. James\u2019 Episcopal Church in Downingtown; and Chester County Book Company in the West Goshen Shopping Plaza. Please visit United Way of Chester County\u2019s Facebook page at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UWChesterCounty\">www.facebook.com\/UWChesterCounty<\/a> for updates on the book drive and more information.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information, contact Mary Anne Feeley, United Way of Chester County Director, Leadership Chester County, 610 429-9400 ext. 4110 or <a href=\"mailto:ma*************@********************ty.org\" data-original-string=\"z7aGtfw8pTDyYcdLVsT9EQ==750fRGVA9oIRvL+DKrshtyGnVqco2aJf9mfS5TjO4nehL68JUsZNvG5QDQi4onRcTn4\" title=\"This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.\"><span \n                data-original-string='L7MA07ETZFoOCooRk9pjgQ==750dHvmLZxqW+nbLvZgpSCTOUQBebHTDpmTXxo4btOESE1FU\/QmN5CD0WvAunnezu0s'\n                class='apbct-email-encoder'\n                title='This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.'>ma<span class=\"apbct-blur\">*************<\/span>@<span class=\"apbct-blur\">********************<\/span>ty.org<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call to action &#8211; donations needed to help kids get ready for kindergarten The United Way of Chester County (UWCC) has issued a community call to action to help local children get ready for kindergarten in the fall.\u00a0 Sponsored by a grant from CCRES, UWCC\u2019s drive will get summer reading materials to public sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25,4],"tags":[6316,6317,5705],"class_list":["post-16351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-community","category-featured","tag-book-drive","tag-early-learning","tag-united-way-of-chester-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16351"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16358,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351\/revisions\/16358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}