Students at South Prairie Elementary School in Sycamore will be getting the opportunity to enjoy reading, and to meet Rotarians who may inspire them in the future...with the launch of Rotary Readers.
 
This new project will get underway this fall, funded in part by a grant from Rotary District 6420; Rotarian Mark Spiegelhoff adapted this project from one run by the Quincy Rotary Club -- which has Rotarians come in weekly to read to students, discuss their careers, and get them excited about reading on their own.
 
One selected Rotarian will go to South Prairie every Thursday at 9:45 a.m. to meet with students; each one will have two books -- one will be selected for reading to the class, and both will be donated to the school library.
 
Basic education and literacy is one of the primary goals of Rotary, and our club expects to meet this objective through this project; our thanks to Mark for being the inspiration for this effort.