FOX 17 Donates 2,400 Books to GRPS Kids
Scripps Give a Child a Book campaign raises 160,000 books nationwide
and last updated 2021-01-29 19:51:34-05
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. â Through a partnership with the charitable arm of our parent company â the Scripps Howard Foundation â and Scholastic Book Fairs, FOX 17 raised and gave away over 2,400 books to first- and second-graders in the Grand Rapids Public School System. They were dropped off on Friday.
Now in its fourth year, the âGive a Child a Bookâ campaign raised 165,000 books in 2020 alone, all collected by Scripps stations across the country.
âI love that it brings books into the lives of young people and young children,â said Dr. Leadriane Roby, superintendent at GRPS. âWeâre investing in our young people to say literacy is important and that we want to encourage and invite our young people to fall in love with reading.â
Paddy cultivation on course
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Cultivation of paddy in the current Yasangi (Rabi) season has crossed the normal extent for the season already, although it is only little over 50% of its extent during the last Yasangi.
According to officials of the Agriculture Department, transplantation of paddy has already been completed in about 22.85 lakh acres out of the total season coverage of over 32.06 lakh acres for all crops put together so far.
By the same period last year, paddy transplantation was done only in over 14.23 lakh acres and total extent covered by the same time was over 25.82 lakh acres.
Mum turned hobby creating stunning flower boxes into business that now has thousands of followers
Lina Derrington s business became so successful she ended up working everyday during the first lockdown
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Lina Derrington first started her flower box business as a hobby
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Novel Approach: Secrets haunt small town in Surrender the Dead
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‘Deserves better’: Some Liverpool fans find a positive in ace who ‘passes better than Trent’
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Some Liverpool fans on social media have found a positive in Alisson after the Reds’ loss to Burnley on Thursday evening.
As you can imagine, the mood around the fanbase on social media was largely negative as Liverpool lost at Anfield for the first time in over three years, but one man who did get a lot of credit for his performance was Alisson.
Perhaps this shows the fact that Liverpool deserved to lose to Burnley, as a goalkeeper receiving a lot of praise is never symptomatic of a team that has played well.