(Chelsea Update would like to thank Jim Randolph and Edith Donnell for the information in this story.)
The Chelsea Kiwanis Club will welcome Edith Donnell, youth/teen librarian from Chelsea District Library to its meeting on Monday, May 4. She will be speaking about the Summer Reading program at the library. This year, the Chelsea School District is providing greater participation to promote and support Summer Reading as a way to maintain student learning all summer long.
Participants have increased each year since 2011, when 1,125 students read 19,800 books, to 2014, when 1,384 students read 27,705 books.
Our club has donated to purchase books to be given as prizes, and will continue to do so this year. We encourage the community to donate to this worthy cause for literacy.
The meeting begins at 6:15 p.m. in the St. Joseph Mercy-Chelsea Hospital cafeteria, and the speakers begin at about 6:45 p.m. Everyone is invited to the meetings to learn about Kiwanis.
In addition, the Chelsea Kiwanis Club will be working with the Chelsea PTO and Chelsea District Schools to start a K Kids Club at North Creek and South Meadows elementary schools. K Kids is a student run club designed to instill the value of service (to others and the community) in the hearts and minds of young people.
The new K Kids Club will become part of and supported by other members of the Kiwanis family, the Chelsea club and the University of Michigan Circle K Club, which already supports a K Kids Club in Ann Arbor.
