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Local News, Your Community Arts & Entertainment, Your News Schools, Business, Environment Vol #3 - Issue #14 esteroCAMBRIA • CAYU COSbay • LOS OSOS • MORRO news BAY July 29, 2021 - August 11, 2021 Donation Supplies New Books to School Library Moving Forward By Theresa-Marie Wilson with Dell Franklin, Writer By Judy Salamacha Donations from the community helped fill the Los Oso Middle School Library with new books. Dell Franklin wrote the book “Life on the Mississippi, 1969,” Pictured: Karl Blum, principal of LOMS; Ellen Perryes from Volumes of Pleasure; Carroll Leslie, owner of Volumes of Pleasure; and his mother did the cover art. Marlene Owens, Quota education committee chair, and Patti James, education committee member for Quota; Lindsey Rapone, LOMS PTSA secretary; Nelly Ochoa-Lepe, LOMS PTSA president; and Cassondra Abercrombie, LOMS librarian. his columnist has post-COVID wanderlust! So, while Tresearching river cruising, I discovered a local author, Dell he list of benefits children get from reading is an impressive books they will go much further than those without access to Franklin, had written “Life on the Mississippi, 1969.” The dry- Tone that includes improved focus, concentration, communi- books. I loved to read as a child and now my son, Colton, who docked Delta Queen is America’s last authentic paddle-wheel cation and social skills. Books also offer a new world to explore is going into 7th grade at LOMS, loves to read. It gives youth steamboat and in 1969 Franklin spent a year crewing as its store- and understand as well as expands creative thinking and visuliza- the ability to escape into a whole other world and sparks their keeper.
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