<div>This is great. </div><div> </div><div>I think that other libraries around the state also invited legislators to their libraries. It would be great to know what your experiences were as well.</div><div> </div><div> </div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue">Recently the OLA Legislative Committee urged public libraries to contact their legislators over the summer and invite them to visit the library, learn what Ready To Read Grants were supporting, do a guest storytime,
etc. West Slope Community Library followed through on this and two legislators quickly accepted invitations to visit the library and participate in toddler time! Who woulda thunk it? Katie Anderson asked me to forward our press release to libs-or in case
any other libraries want to do so - feel free to use it as a template. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue;font-size:10pt">Eva Calcagno, Director</span><span style="color:blue;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";font-size:12pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"> Jodi Nielsen [<a href="mailto:jodin@wccls.org" target="_blank">mailto:jodin@wccls.org</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 06, 2012 5:41 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> WCCLS Executive Board; WCCLS Policy Group; Board of Commissioners - Washington County<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Kirsten Freeman-Benson<br>
<b>Subject:</b> State Legislators Featured Storytime Guests at Local Library - MEDIA RELEASE</span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">MEDIA RELEASE - For immediate release</span></u></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><br>
Date: July 6, 2011</span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">Contact:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"> Jodi Nielsen, Senior Program Educator
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<a href="tel:503-846-3235" target="_blank" value="+15038463235">503-846-3235</a> </span><span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:15pt">State Legislators Featured Storytime Guests at Local Library</span></b><span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">West Slope Community Library Features</span></b><span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">July 10 – Representative Tobias Read</span></b><span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">July 17 – Senator Mark Hass
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">Washington County, Oregon:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"> On Tuesday, July 10th Oregon State Representative
Tobias Read will visit the West Slope Community Library as a guest "storyteller" for the Toddler Storytime and Oregon Senator Mark Hass will be the featured storyteller on Tuesday, July 17th. Toddler Time is held from 10:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. in the children’s
area of the library.</span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">Both Read and Hass represent the residents of the surrounding West Slope area and have been invited to visit the library to learn about the latest offerings in
early literacy services provided by the library, and to witness first hand how public libraries utilize Oregon Ready To Read funds (the only state funding allocated for public libraries).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">According to Eva Calcagno, Director of the Washington County Cooperative Library Services (WCCLS), the West Slope Library primarily uses state Ready To Read funds
to administer their annual Summer Reading program. Calcagno reports, “as we continue to educate the public about the importance of introducing both pre-readers and young readers to the rich resources available in the public library, we felt this offered a
wonderful opportunity to showcase the libraries’ services to the Senator and State Representative during their legislative recess. Reading through the summer months is vital to helping children prepare to enter school ready to read and ready to learn.”</span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">Parents of young children, Read and Hass will be right at home reading and engaging the active and curious minds of toddlers. When the Legislature is not in session,
Read enjoys coaching youth basketball and mentoring for the Greenway Elementary SMART (Start Making A Reader Today) program. Hass is currently Chair of the Senate Committee on Education and General Government. And while in the House of Representatives, Hass
was a key player on tax and education policy. His first bill passed into law (HB2421) created tax incentives for businesses to set up college scholarship programs for their employees. Hass has also served as board member on the Beaverton Library Foundation.</span><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:12pt">We invite parents and care givers with toddlers ages one and a half to three to attend one or both of the guest storyteller appearances. It offers the opportunity
to meet and speak with your state and federal legislative representatives. </span>
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