SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. -- The Shepherdstown Rotary Club has awarded a $350 "Rotary Reads" grant to the Shepherdstown Elementary School. The grant will help fund a special reading activity, in which all the school's kindergartners attend a stage production about the popular children's author Junie B. Jones and receive their own copy of one of her books.
The Rotary Club presented the grant at its March 21 weekly breakfast meeting at the Bavarian Inn. Shepherdstown Elementary School Principal Scott Campbell and Kindergarten teacher Michelle Webb attended and received the grant on behalf of the school.
The Shepherdstown Rotary Club's Rotary Reads grant program is one of several Club activities aimed at enhancing literacy among local children. It consists of cash grants, awarded annually, to worthy institutions for projects or programs that promote reading.
Enhancing literacy has been a major priority of Rotarians since their organization's founding in 1905.