Pasco County Reading Council

Board Members 2007 - 2008

FRA District Director Joy Milner

Co - presidents Diana Pollard (Calusa) Melinda Smith (Cox)

President Elect Zana Brooks (QHES)

Treasurer Teresa Joiner (CIS)

Membership Chair Elementary Danielle Varcardine (Gulfside)

Recording Secretaries Liz Mitchell (Pasco Elem)

Corresponding Sec. Rhoda Cribbs (Trinity)

Historian Marisa Williams

Public Relations Sherida Weaver (Pasco High)

Read Across America Kelly Merenda (Trinity)

Greeter/ Outreach Christine Holt (DOES)

Consultant Betty Wray Boyce (Retired)

Projects
A Gift of Reading collects and distributes new and barely used books to the Sunrise Shelter of Pasco County. These are used for Christmas gifts for the children and adults at the shelter. Extra books were donated to the Boys and Girls Club in Lacoochee to help them create an after school library for the children.
Read Across America is scheduled for Saturday, March 2, 2002. Several McDonalds across the county help us host this event. Our reading council members go in from 10:00-2:00 and read to the children that are there. In some locations, the management provides cookie packets to the children who participate. Children are given books by the council members after they have listened to a story.
Cyesis classes in three locations in our county welcome council members to come in and talk to the mothers and mothers-to-be about the importance of reading to their child from birth on. Tips are given and many ideas are shared. All Cyesis moms receive a book for their baby.