CiTi Students Visited By Local Authors, Pets

May 12, 2015 Contributor
Students enrolled in CiTi’s Stepping Stones Day Program at Fourth Street School in Fulton were recently visited by local authors and their pets as part of Paws Across Oswego County’s Reading for Rescue program. Pictured, student Tristan Graham hugs his new friend Sawyer.

Students enrolled in CiTi’s Stepping Stones Day Program at Fourth Street School in Fulton were recently visited by local authors and their pets as part of Paws Across Oswego County’s Reading for Rescue program. Pictured, student Tristan Graham hugs his new friend Sawyer.

Center for Instruction, Technology and Innovation students in Robyn Yorker’s Stepping Stones Day Program class were recently visited by two local authors and their four-legged friends, as part of a reading program through Paws Across Oswego County.

Students enrolled in CiTi’s Stepping Stones Day Program at Fourth Street School in Fulton were recently visited by local authors and their pets as part of Paws Across Oswego County’s Reading for Rescue program. Pictured, student Tristan Graham hugs his new friend Sawyer.
Students enrolled in CiTi’s Stepping Stones Day Program at Fourth Street School in Fulton were recently visited by local authors and their pets as part of Paws Across Oswego County’s Reading for Rescue program. Pictured, student Tristan Graham hugs his new friend Sawyer.

Local authors Connie Evans and Marjorie Wentworth, along with their dogs Charlotte and Sawyer, stopped by Fourth Street School in Fulton to provide public awareness of fostering pets and the importance of animal rescue.

During their visit, the authors read “Charlotte’s Big Dream” and “Sawyer’s Promise,” books inspired by the lives of the two dogs in attendance.

During the readings, students were afforded the opportunity to pet the two dogs, creating an understanding of the significance of each book’s message.

Students in Robyn Yorker’s Stepping Stones Day Program class promise to read “Charlotte’s Big Dream” with their families and friends.
Students in Robyn Yorker’s Stepping Stones Day Program class promise to read “Charlotte’s Big Dream” with their families and friends.

The visit came as part of the Reading for Rescue program, which Evans and Wentworth started in 2013 in conjunction with Paws Across Oswego County.

Working with Tails and Tales Publishing, the two local authors collaborated to write children’s books that were both fun and educational.

Each dog featured in their books are former PAOC fosters who have been adopted. PAOC is a non-profit animal rescue established in 2001 to help foster and adopt animals, as well as work with local shelters to provide spay and neuter services.

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