Peggy Banaszek is running for PA House in the 182nd District. She's also been busy doing civic-minded stuff all around town. I live in the same neighborhood as Banaszek and she's everywhere. At civic group meetings, on Town Watch, at city-wide gatherings and on the campaign trail at events all around town. She's launched a new initiative to bring more books to the hands and eyes of Philadelphia's kids.
From the brochure [above]
10,000 Pages is a community-based awareness campaign working to highlight and reverse the depleted state of our city's school libraries. We are collecting new and gently used books for neighborhood schools to help update their collections so that students of alla ges will have more interesting libraries to turn to and so that teachers will have more resources to use.
We urge you to participate by donating books at one of our listed Community Partner locations. School libraries are most in need of popular fiction and multi-cultural biographies meant for 1st to 8th grade reading levels. Talk to your local bookseller for suggestions.
I'll be out in Rittenhouse Square, with Peggy and the gang, handing out info on the program and collecting books Sunday between 11a - 2p. Click here for a bigger version of the image above to see where you can drop off some of your books.
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