Photos From Around the Community
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what matters™
We will be posting photos from various events around the community so check back often.
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Imagine What You Can Learn
The Grove City Area United Way is planning to bring Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library (DPIL) to our community. The intention of bringing the DPIL to Grove City is to instill the love of reading in every child in our school district and to increase early literacy skills to prepare our children for life-long learning. The DPIL sends an age appropriate book to children from birth until the age of five and has been shown to improve school readiness for children entering kindergarten.
To give a little history, Dolly Parton first launched the Imagination Library in 1996 to benefit the children in her home county in east Tennessee. She wanted children to be excited about books and to feel the magic that books can create. Moreover, she could ensure that every child would have books, regardless of their family’s income. So, she decided to mail a brand new, age appropriate book each month to every child in her county under the age of five. With the arrival of every child’s first book, The Little Engine that Could, every child could now experience the joy of finding their very own book in their mail box. These moments continue each month until the child turns 5 – and in their very last month in the program they receive the book, Look Out Kindergarten Here I Come.
Because her Imagination Library was such a great success, many other communities have adopted this program for their own children. This program has spread to 43 states, the District of Columbia, as well as 6 Canadian Provinces. Currently over 420,000 children receive a new book each month from the DPIL.
In bringing this program to our own community, the Grove City Area United Way will open the registration to all families, regardless of income, within the Grove City School District. The local United Way takes care of the registration while the Dollywood Foundation manages the system and delivers the books to the home.
The Grove City Area United Way is excited about bringing the Dolly Parton Imagination Library to the Grove City Community because of the lasting impact it will have on our children. To raise sufficient funds for this program, the Grove City Area United Way is planning to host an auction on Friday, October 10th at the Legacy. If you are interested in donating an item for the auction, please contact the United Way at 724-458-4527 or at gcunitedway@zoominternet.net. The auction is free and open to the public, so come out and support the children in our community!
Letter From the Executive Director
It is with extreme pride in our community that I report that the Grove City Area United Way’s first-ever Stuff the Bus Drive was a huge success. For the first two Saturdays in August, volunteers staffed the outside of the Grove City Wal-Mart informing shoppers that we were there collecting new school supplies for school students within the Grove City Area School District who were in need. I was amazed by the outpouring of support we received for the project, the generosity of the Grove City community and the willingness of area businesses to join in our efforts. With distribution of the supplies now complete to over 100 students, I would like to thank the following, without whom this drive would not have been possible: Mike Clancey, Ed Hannon, Terri Persch, Karen Palmer, Don and Nancy Henley, Connie Stembal, Cassie Blom and Mom Natalie, Dave Murone, Roger and Leah Flynn, Karl Hart, Valarie Phillips, Beth Gordon, Alexis and Amanda Ginnis, Jennifer and Kathleen Davis, Jim and Patti Schooley of Shaw School Bus Lines, Levi Hipps of Wal-Mart, Jodi Boelema and Megan McKay of GE as well as the GE employees who took part in the drive at the GE plant, the summer school students and teachers of Hillview Intermediate Center, Jim Anderson, Cindy Webster, Bonnie Bonnani, David Foley, Marj Smoker, Judy Campbell, Joanna Ithen; Dana, Zoe and Abbey Brown; Ethan, Abby and Hannah Foley, Bob McBryan, Beau Robb and Don Bonnani of image FX and Dave Knopp Jr. of County Market. In addition, thank you to all of those in our community who generously donated school supplies and clothing to our area students. Over 100 students who would not have had them otherwise, received new school supplies this year thanks to your kindness. On behalf of the Grove City Area United Way Board of Directors, thank you for all you’ve done to make Grove City an even better place for our area school students to call home.
Amy Foley
Executive Director
Grove City Area United Way