Dec 18, 2020
Former NASCAR racer Jimmie Johnson is helping get books into the homes of Muskogee school children.
Muskogee Public Schools librarians received a $54,455 Champions Grant from the Jimmie Johnson Foundation to fund book distribution for children. Librarians have had three or four book giveaways every year, said New Tech at Cherokee Elementary librarian Gina Batie, who wrote the grant application. Most of the books had been donated out of Feed the Children Teacher Store out of Oklahoma City. But we always have to borrow the supplies to host the book giveaways. We don t have folding tables. We don t have any kind of sound system where anyone can hear us. We pitched together to buy a banner.