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Arvest gives $2,500 to Neosho Family YMCA Summer Meal Program
Neosho Daily News
On Jun. 1, associates of Arvest Bank, on behalf of the Arvest Foundation, presented a $2,500 check to the Neosho Family YMCA for their summer meal program.
“Terra Oxendine is a YMCA member,” said Tina Ferguson, Executive Director of Youth Development for the Neosho YMCA. Oxendine also works for Arvest Bank. “She reached out to our CEO and he immediately thought of the summer food program. Because 25,000 meals is a huge goal, he thought that would be a good fit for what the Arvest Foundation does. It got approved and were super excited.”
The summer brain drain is legit. Parents worry about their kids losing reading fluency over the summer break. Add in a year of distance learning and there are fears learning loss could be worse this year. Sign up for our Newsletters That's why getting kids excited about reading books over the summer is so important. Tina Ferguson, owner of Face in a Book bookstore, advises parents to let kids choose their own books in the summer. She says.
Heading out on vacation this summer? There are a lot of great beach reads out just in time for the increase in holiday travel expected due to increased vaccination rates and relaxed pandemic rules. Sign up for our Newsletters Tina Ferguson, owner of Face in a Book bookstore, says customers are definitely craving certain genres coming out of the pandemic. "We're loving anything that's escapist, whether it's romance or apocalyptic stuff, dystopian.
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