Grandview Heights Public Library: Reading club helps students avoid summer slide
The Grandview Heights Public Library s 2021 Summer Reading Club again will be a virtual experience.
Unlike the 2020 program, however, youngsters will be able to participate in some in-person outdoor activities. Last year, we had to do the reading club as an all-virtual program because we were right in the early months of the COVID pandemic, youth-services librarian Rachel Rausch said. We re so excited about being able to do some limited in-person activities because we ve missed seeing everyone so much.
The in-person activities will not be open to infants, toddlers and preschool-age children, Rausch said.
Upper Arlington duo form Harper s Corner Foundation to equip school libraries with books on diversity, inclusion
Children open books to discover new worlds and realms of their imagination.
An initiative founded by two Upper Arlington women is designed to help youngsters find themselves in the books they read.
The Harper s Corner Foundation is a nonprofit group that donates books about diversity and inclusion to central Ohio elementary schools.
Upper Arlington resident Julia Hanna initiated the program last summer after the death of George Floyd in Minnesota.
As the white mother of a biracial child, Hanna said, she was concerned about the issues of identity and inclusion her 5-year-old daughter, Harper, might face.