RON FARLEY, custodian at Pine Street Elementary School, dressed the part as he read “Pirate Pete” to second-graders in Karen Shaw’s class last Friday as part of National Young Readers Day.
Co-founded in 1989 by Pizza Hut® and the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, National Young Readers Day is meant to recognize the joys and benefits of reading. Schools recruit local “celebrities” to read aloud a favorite children’s book in the classrooms. Among those who read at Pine Street included principal Loretta Clark, Sarah Porter and Brittany Bearden, members of the Presque Isle High School Class B girls soccer championship team; Officer Lynn Hartley of the Presque Isle Police Department, Adam Murchison, recreation programmer for the Presque Isle Recreation & Parks Department; Jane Foster, reading teacher at Pine Street; Tyler Pyburn and Kelly O’Mara of WAGM-TV, Nate Allen of the Presque Isle Fire Department, Sue McPherson, children’s librarian at the Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library; Aaron Buzza, farm manager of the SAD 1 Educational Farm and State Police Trooper Chuck Michaud.
Staff photo/Scott Mitchell Johnson
Staff photo/Scott Mitchell Johnson
SARAH PORTER, a member of the Presque Isle High School Class B girls soccer championship team, reads “I’m Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem” to kindergartners in Tammy Willey’s class at Pine Street Elementary School. Last Friday was National Young Readers Day, and a number of local “celebrities” came into the classrooms to read a favorite children’s book. Co-founded in 1989 by Pizza Hut® and the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, National Young Readers Day is meant to recognize the joys and benefits of reading.
