SPECIAL PEOPLE
People
are what makes This City Reads! and our
community's efforts to improve our
literacy so successful. This new page
will give This City Reads! an
opportunity to recognize some of those people.
Home Run Readers
These students are selected
each spring by partner
schools to honor those
students who have made great
strides in their literacy
skills. These students are
honored at the This City
Reads!/Akron Aeros Book
Drive baseball game each
spring.
Congratulations to
the 2011 Home Run Readers
Dylin -
Price Elementary
Blake - Roosevelt Elementary
Torell - Glover Community
Learning Center
Carle - Price Elementary
Alexis - Roosevelt
Elementary
Duncan - Price Elementary
Rebecca - Young Elementary
Ja'Niyah - Glover Community
Learning Center
Josh - Spring Hill Junior
High
Nikolai - Young Elementary
Elijah - Roosevelt
Elementary
Doug - Spring Hill Junior
High
Madyline - Glover Community
Learning Center
Alexa - Lincoln Elementary
Kristian - Firestone Park
Elementary
Ian - Young Elementary
Congratulations to 2010's Home
Run Readers
Keith - Roosevelt
Elementary
Ivana - Barberton High
School
Mackenzie - Akron
Elementary, Summit Academy
Alyssa - Memorial
Elementary
Mikayla - U.L. Light
Middle School
Jacob - Glover
Community Learning Center
Megan - Forest Hill
Community Learning Center
Mary - Forest Hill
Community Learning Center
Grant - NIHF STEM
School
Alexandria - Case
Elementary
Allen - Lincoln
Elementary
Rachel, Lincoln
Elementary
Congratulations to our 2009 Home
Run Readers:
Olivia - Summit Academy
Elementary
James - Preston Elementary
Gabriel - Price Elementary
Bryce - Ritzman Elementary
Mia - F.A.C.T. Academy
Jimmy - Summit Academy
Middle School
Each
year This
City Reads! gives partners an opportunity to honor a staff member, client or
volunteer who has quietly gone above and
beyond in their efforts to improve the
literacy skills of themselves or others in
our community.
Congratulations to
our Literacy is Life Award
winners for 2011!
Mike
& Ann Fremon - nominated by Project
Learn of Summit County
Jennifer Ancil - nominated by Summit
Academy Schools
Inda
Blatch-Geib - nominated by This City
Reads!
Esther Hexter - nominated by Shaw
JCC
Susan Sawyer representing Friends of
Main Library - nominated by
Akron-Summit County Public Library
Bridgette Hopson - nominated by
Project RISE-Akron Public Schools
Kathy Crawford - nominated by First
Book-Greater Akron
Rachel Breece - nominated by Project
RISE-Akron Public Schools
Yu-Ling Yeh - nominated by Akron
Summit Community Action,Inc. Head
Start
Cheryl Franklin & Karla Weber -
nominated by Akron Public Schools
CONGRATULATIONS to 2010's award winners and
many thanks for all you
contribute to the community:
Patricia K. Delegrange
- Nominated by Shaw JCC of Akron
Early Childhood
First Book-Greater Akron
- Nominated by Akron Area YMCA
Jamie Green
- Nominated by Summit Academy
Schools
Hank Hudson
- Nominated by Akron-Summit County
Public Library
Valerie Sims
- Nominated by Summa Health Systems
Ellie Ward
- Nominated by Akron Art Museum
Callie Mae Williams
- Nominated by Project Learn of
Summit County
Literacy is Life Awards Winners 2009
Mrs Anne Sapp -
nominated by Shaw JCC
Mary Mayer -
nominated by Akron Public
Schools
Kimberly Hauge -
nominated by Summit
Academy Schools
Chuck Bell -
nominated by First Book
Greater Akron
Mary Bishop -
nominated by Akron-Summit
County Public Library
Dilisa Townsend -
nominated by Akron
Metropolitan Housing
Authority
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