| Maria Carillo Students Come Up Big for the Bookmobile |
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Written by admin, October 22nd, 2009
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Our friend Catherine Borchert has many gifts to offer (see 9/1 entry below). One of her strengths is inspiring excitement about an idea, and she did just that when she approached students in Lorraine Martinez-Ohlsen’s Leadership Class at Marilla Carillo High School about boosting the Bookmobile. These enterprising teens took on a monster of a book drive, relentlessly pitching the need for donations to family, friends, and fellow students. And they came up big: 1,398 books of very high quality collected. That’s half again as much as we’ve given away in total!
Meeting this group was a special event. They were very curious about where their books were headed, so I drove the trailer right onto the quad so they could hop in and load it up themselves. They had great questions; some had never heard of a bookmobile before embarking on the project. Does that make me feel old? Nah, just lucky. And a little sad that the county hasn’t funded this service for well over a decade.
Please read the article and check out the pictures on the Press Democrat website:
http://extracredit.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/11090/carrillo-students-support-bookmobile/
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