Club Hosts Book Drive and Announces Scholarship Winners

Wood County Republican Women's Club Literacy Chair Julie Hicks collected 300+ books to share with the Pregnancy Center in Bowling Green and Mom's House in Toledo. Both locations are doing their best to care for young mothers and help educate small children by providing books for them to read.

Julie is now a member of the NFRW Literacy Committee, and her background in teaching children to how to read will be an added benefit to us all. Both locations were so happy to receive the books and our support. We will continue providing books for them and the adults. It is what we need to do to help young mothers and children.

Julie reached out to a local coffee house and ask if she could put a donor collection box for children's books. The Bard in Perrysburg loved the idea. Julie also posted to a community page and ask for donations to be dropped off at the site. Three hundred books in no time at all were donated.

After Julie reviewed the books, she packed them up and delivered some to the Pregnancy Center and some to Mom's House. We will continue to ask our club members to collect more books to help. Julie knows about teaching children how to read the traditional way using phonics. Pictured are Mom's House, Kristen Lennex, Donor Relations Coordinator, Julie Haas, Program Director, and Julie Hicks, Literacy Specialist, WCRWC Literacy Chair.

To celebrate the club's eighth anniversary, WCRWC hosted a dinner and awarded scholarships to four female high school graduates living in Wood County. Rebekah Cunningham, Riley Daniels, Jaycie Studer and Lainee Partin (pictured left to right) will be enrolled at great colleges to begin their goals. We applaud them and their parents. We will continue this tradition with the help from our members and supporters.