January 2011 Celebrity Chef Curtis Aikens Addresses Literacy Luncheon Celebrity chef, television personality, acclaimed chef. His good-natured best-selling author and former charm and unaffected charisma adult literacy student Curtis Aikens helped Curtis land featured spots will be the featured speaker at the on Good Morning America, Oprah 20th annual Love of Literacy and Entertainment Tonight. He has Luncheon at the Raymond F. Kravis also cooked for the Dalai Lama. NBC Center for the Performing Arts-Cohen Nightly News covered his remarkable Pavilion in West Palm Beach on struggle with illiteracy and his Friday, March 11. Aikens did not devotion to helping adults with the for the tenth year by support from learn to read until he was 26 years same issue. As an author of five Bank of America. The law firm of old and is an avid advocate for adult popular books, Aikens keeps the fire Haile, Shaw & Pfaffenberger, P.A. is learners and volunteer tutors. for literacy burning among delicious again supporting the luncheon as our down-home cooking ideas. Platinum Sponsor. He has been with the Food Network since its inception, but before his The Love of Literacy Luncheon raises media acclaim, he succeeded as an awareness of our county’s significant To purchase luncheon tickets, sponsor entrepreneur who hid his lack of literacy needs and provides crucial a table or a program ad or to donate a literacy skills. He never felt good support for literacy programs serving door prize, call 800-273-1030, e-mail about his business accomplishments approximately 30,000 individuals each [email protected] or visit because he never learned to read. year. We are pleased to announce www.literacypbc.org. Now he is a college graduate and an that the luncheon is made possible
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Silver Sponsors: AT&T • Comcast • Cheryl Crowley & Bernadette O’Grady Lewis Longman & Walker, P.A. • Lynn University • NCCI Holdings, Inc. March 11 at 11:30 am Neuhoff Communications • Northern Trust • SunTrust EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE President Maggie Dickenson, US Bank Mark Your 2011 Calendars Vice Presidents Robert Patterson, SunTrust January 29 March 26 Joan Williams, Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A. Tutor Training Tutor Training Secretary Palm Beach State College Palm Beach State College Phil DiComo, Haile, Shaw & Pfaffenberger, P.A. Lake Worth Lake Worth Treasurer 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Lisa Koza, Northern Trust Parliamentarian Susan Rabinowitz, Bank of America February 10 April 2 Past Presidents Adult Learner Leadership Board Loop the Lake for Literacy Michael Bracci, Northern Trust Jonathan E. Brookshire, Wells Fargo Norton Museum Lake Okeechobee Mark J. Burger, Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, L.L.P. West Palm Beach Cheryl Crowley, ImMEDIAcy Public Relations, Inc. 6:00 p.m. Laura Deck Cunningham, Charlotte Pelton & Associates April 5 Laurie L. Gildan, Greenberg Traurig, P.A. Reach Out and Read Training Dinner Bernadette O’Grady, WPTV NewsChannel 5 February 11 Benvenuto Dana Pickard, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP Adult Essay Contest Deadline 6:30 p.m. Kenneth G. Spillias, Lewis, Longman & Walker, P.A. Founding President Gale G. Howden March 11 April 14 DIRECTORS Love of Literacy Luncheon Essay Contest Reception Mary Barrett, School District of Palm Beach County Edith C. Bush, Assault on Illiteracy Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Palm Beach Airport Hilton Kristin Calder, Bethesda Hospital Foundation West Palm Beach West Palm Beach Marta Casas-Celaya, Comcast 11:30 a.m. 5:30 p.m. Joseph Coscia, MultiMedia Concept Group Bryan DeFrances, Credit Suisse David Fleisher, Lynn University Noelle Frederickson, Four Points Media Group of West Palm Beach, Inc. Robert Friedman, Gunster Robert Gingras, Palm Beach State College Paula Henderson, Florida Power & Light Village Readers Program Sharon Hill, Palm Beach County Library System Lynn Kalber, The Palm Beach Post Esther LaBovick, LaBovick & LaBovick, P.A. Assists Students in Dean Lavallee, Park Avenue BBQ & Grille Kathy Metzger, Florida Crystals Corporation Ken Montgomery, Barnabas Consulting Group, Inc. Geoff Neuhoff, Neuhoff Communications, Inc. Securing Employment Ike Powell III, Workforce Alliance, Inc. Lourdes Ramos, Starbucks Coffee International Kelly Starling, AT&T reside with his relatives in Delray CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Beach for the purpose of mastering Darlene Kostrub ADVISORY PANEL English and continuing his educational Dr. Alina Alonso, Palm Beach County Health Department and career goals. In addition to Dr. Diane Alperin, Florida Atlantic University Perry Borman, Florida Department of Children & Families pursuing his GED, Chanel would like Michael Bracci, Northern Trust to pursue a career as a Physician’s Dwight Chenette, Health Care District of Palm Beach County Assistant. Laura Corry, South Florida Water Management District Max Davis, Member at Large George Elmore, Member at Large Chanel has a deep appreciation for The Honorable Lois J. Frankel, City of West Palm Beach Dr. Dennis Gallon, Palm Beach State College music, in particular the mellow tones Dennis Grady, Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches Louise Grant, Mary & Robert Pew Public Education Fund of the trombone which he hopes to Gale Howden, Founding President, Literacy Coalition of study one day. He attends Bethel Palm Beach County Dr. Arthur Johnson, The School District of Evangelical Baptist Church on a Palm Beach County Leanna Landsmann, Scripps Florida It comes as no surprise to the faculty regular basis and enjoys listening to The Honorable Edward Rodgers, Circuit Court (Retired) of the Coalition’s Village Readers and accompanying the talented choir Shelley Vana, Board of County Commissioners Stephen Ast, Boca Raton Resort & Club Family Education program that one of that house of worship. Cheryl Budd, NCCI Holdings, Inc. Glenn Jergensen, Greater Boynton Beach of our most diligent and personable Chamber of Commerce students, Mr. Chanel Norde, has Mr. Norde says that his tenure in Mike Malone, Greater Delray Beach Chamber of Commerce secured a food service position for the Village Readers Program has Rocki Rockingham, Jarden Consumer Solutions Dr. Kevin Ross, Lynn University himself at the prestigious Marcello’s given him the skills to communicate Emily Santos, IBM Restaurant in Deerfield Beach, Florida. effectively on job interviews. Chanel’s Tim Snow, The George Snow Scholarship Fund Samantha Vassallo, Junior League of Boca Raton instructor, Michael J. Krantz, is The Honorable Susan Whelchel, City of Boca Raton Mr. Norde arrived in Florida a mere very proud of this young man’s Florida Literacy Coalition and ProLiteracy Member one year and ten months ago to achievement. Loop the Lake for Literacy is a cycling event benefiting the Receive programs of the Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County, a special which ensure that adults, children, youth and families gain the Loop the Lake literacy skills necessary to succeed in life. cycling jersey!* In this fun, adventurous outdoor event, cyclists will ride 25, 50 or 120 mile routes around the shores of Lake Okeechobee. WHAT: Save the date and join us for this exciting event. Let’s Loop the Cycling event Lake together and promote literacy in Palm Beach County. to benefit the Literacy Coalition of For literacy information, contact: Palm Beach County For more event information and to register, visit: WHEN: at (800) 273-1030 or visit www.LoopTheLakeForLiteracy.com Saturday, April 2 www.literacypbc.org WHERE: Lake Okeechobee, FL
EARLY REGISTRATION: 25 miles – $75 50 miles – $75 120 miles – $120
*By fundraising a minimum of $300, you will receive a custom inaugural Loop the Lake for Literacy cycling jersey.
Register today! www.LoopTheLakeForLiteracy.com The 2010 Spelling Bee Winners are...
On Thursday, September 16, Great Grown-Up Spelling Bee sponsors helped raise more than $33,000 to support literacy programs.
2010 BEE TEAMS: 2010 LETTER SPONSORS: Akerman Senterfitt A: Akerman Senterfitt Cheney Brothers B: Bryan & Tracey DeFrances Comcast C: Comcast Cusano’s Italian Bakery D: Sea Tow Palm Beach Discount Debt Solutions E: Joyce Elden Duffy’s Sports Grill G: Greenberg Traurig, P.A. Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP H: Christine D. Hanley & Associates, P.A. Florida Crystals Corporation I: iPORC.org Florida Power & Light J: Jean Ortner Friends of the Palm Beach County Library System K: Tom and Lisa Koza Greenberg Traurig, P.A. L: Laura Deck Cunningham Bee Hive Sponsor Lowercase Alphabet Sponsor Gunster M: Martin Luther King, Jr. Coordinating LaBovick & LaBovick, P.A. Committee, Inc. Lewis, Longman & Walker, P.A. O: Bernadette O’Grady Lynn University P: The Palm Beach Post Nason, Yeager, Gerson, White & Lioce, P.A. Q: Park Avenue BBQ & Grille Northern Trust R: Rafael J. Roca, P.A. Palm Beach County Bar Association S: Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart SPECIAL THANKS: Palm Beach State College & Shipley, P.A. Barnes & Noble Park Avenue BBQ & Grille T: AT&T Comcast Publix Super Markets Charities, Inc. U: AT&T FourPoints Media Group Republic Services W: AT&T ImMEDIAcy Public Relations Shutts & Bowen LLP X: Haile Shaw & Pfaffenberger, P.A. The Palm Beach Post SV Microwave Y: Palm Beach Yacht Brokerage The Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach The Private Client Reserve at U.S. Bank Z: Department of Adult & TooJay’s Original Gourmet Deli WPBF 25 News Community Education WPTV NewsChannel 5 Author of Dr. Spock’s Baby Basics Trains Local Pediatricians
Dr. Robert Needlman will be the Benjamin Spock’s Behavioral Pediatrics at featured speaker at the annual classic parenting MetroHealth Medical training dinner on Tuesday, April manual. He has Center in Cleveland and 5, for the Coalition’s Reach Out been a columnist is Associate Professor of and Read program made possible for Scholastic’s Pediatrics at Case Western through funding from the Children’s Parent and Child Reserve University School Services Council. Pediatricians and Magazine and has of Medicine. staff members from the program’s written for parents participating medical sites will on-line at The Coalition’s Reach attend the training event. www.Drspock.com Out and Read program and as a Yahoo provides emergent Needlman was the lead pediatrician health expert. His literacy guidance in the Reach Out and Read pilot published academic through the power of project at Boston City Hospital in work includes studies on pediatric local pediatricians at 28 sites and 1989 and directed the program for literacy promotion, prenatal provides new children’s books to its first four years. He is the author cocaine exposure, iron deficiency, more than 28,000 families each year of Dr. Spock’s Baby Basics and maternal depression and resident impacting a large percentage of the co-author of the eighth and ninth training. Dr. Needlman practices families in poverty in our area. editions of Baby and Child Care, Dr. and teaches Developmental and
AmeriCorps Builds Confidence in Palm Beach County Students Young adults from 22 states and from as far away as Oregon, California and Idaho travelled to Palm Beach County in August to serve their country by tutoring and teaching with the Coalition in Literacy AmeriCorps for a year. These members receive a small stipend and are serving at 27 different service sites as graduation coaches with high school students, teachers for family literacy programs, reading instructors with children and adults and educational mentors for youth. because I’m not as smart as the other students?’ I asked One member, Tiffany Hendrix, shared her experience him how he felt about reading out loud, and he explained serving at Gulfstream Goodwill: Transition to Life his embarrassment and struggles to me. I told him my goal Academy. “I work with one student two days a week is to help him with that, and it had nothing to do with his who has a much harder time reading out loud than his intelligence, because I know he’s a very smart young man classmates. I selected him as a student to work with one- who will work hard and has tons of confidence to build to-one because his peers always would feed him words and things to learn. He looked very embarrassed, but had and interrupt his reading, and I wanted him to gain skills a huge grin on his face and said, ‘When my mom comes for and confidence. During our third meeting together, he the open house in a couple weeks, can you tell her that, asked me, ‘Ms. Tiffany, did you ask me to work with you Miss? I don’t think anyone’s said that about me before.’” Coalition Addresses Bullying through Reading Strategies
Because of its great success delivering quality training to ASR will continue to provide the very popular KidzLit after school staff members, the Coalition’s After School reading enrichment program that teaches after school staff Reads (ASR) program was recently selected by Prime Time members how to use quality literature in helping children Palm Beach County to deliver an anti-bullying program. increase their reading skills and enjoyment of reading. This With large group and personalized on-site trainings, ASR year, ASR will also implement KidzMath, which is aligned will provide after school staff with proven strategies and with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics materials to help children and their parents deal with Standards, in five pilot sites. This new program uses bullying. ASR will train after school staff to utilize quality literature to help children develop mathematical skills, gain literature-based activities, dynamic discussion outlines confidence in their mathematical abilities, increase their and energizing activity plans to inspire effective behavioral enjoyment of mathematics and improve their ability to changes in bullies, targeted victims and bystanders work with others. throughout Palm Beach County.
The Literacy Coalition Announces the Luncheon Guests Receive Adult Literacy Student We Are Not Afraid 2011 Essay Contest HCI, The Life Issues Publisher, has delighted guests at the Literacy Adult learners throughout Palm Beach County are Luncheon for many years invited to submit essays on the topic, with a personal copy of a “The most important thing I’ve learned current book. This year’s about life is...” selection that will be given to each guest is a special Essays are to be written in INK and must be favorite. In We Are Not between 150-200 words. Afraid, Homer Hickam writes about the town that Essays need to be mailed by Friday, February 11 to: inspired his #1 bestseller The Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County Rocket Boys and the award- 551 SE 8th Street, Suite 505 winning film October Sky. In Delray Beach, FL 33483 this inspirational guide to overcoming fear, written shortly after the September For more information, contact: 11 attacks, Hickam shares anecdotes from his life, Dianne Maddox particularly the values he learned in the small, humble Outreach Coordinator town of Coalwood, West Virginia. His words of courage (800) 273-1030 or help lead the reader beyond fear to find the strength [email protected] to live more happily and look toward the future with optimism. Child Care Centers Celebrate A Snowy Day
Thousands of parents, caregivers and other adults across the nation joined together in October to read The Snowy Day by author Ezra Jack Keats. This was part of the national effort led by Jumpstart’s Read for the Record campaign to ensure that all children enter kindergarten prepared to succeed.
This year’s campaign was the most successful to date, with more than 2 million children being read to worldwide. In Palm Beach County, 2,200 adults read to 28,000 children! Rob Whitney, President-Elect, Kiwanis Club Jupiter-Tequesta, reads The Snowy Day to children at the Thelma B. Pittman Jupiter Pre-School. The local campaign was coordinated by the Literacy Club and Velocity Community Credit Union Coalition of Palm Beach County in partnership participated in the event. with the Children’s Services Council, PNC, Family Central, WXEL, The Palm Beach Post The Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County and WXEL Television and Radio. The PNC also held a focal event at Palm Beach Ice Foundation awarded the Literacy Coalition Works on October 7. Children from Academy of Palm Beach County a grant to assist the of Little Learners, All About Kids, Glades Family Coalition’s early literacy program in Palm Beach Education Program and Hispanic Human County. Resources listened to The Snowy Day read by Tania Rogers from WPTV NewsChannel Adults from local businesses, municipalities 5. The children heard other winter stories and services organizations such as Palm read by Craig Grant, PNC Regional President; Beach County Fire Rescue, Family Central, Leslie Streeter, The Palm Beach Post; Stefan Florida Power & Light, Lynn University, Jarden Holt, WPBF 25 News and John Favole, WPTV Consumer Solutions, Kiwanis Club of Jupiter- NewsChannel 5. The children were also treated Tequesta, Office Depot Foundation, Palm Beach to an ice skating show as well as snow cones. Atlantic University, Palm Beach Flagler Rotary
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