Literacy Volunteers of Oswego County’s (LVOC) Scrabble Fest Auction will highlight this year’s 4th Annual Diane Falise Memorial Scrabble Fest. This year’s Scrabble Fest will be held on Friday, April 23, from 6:30 to 9 p.m., at the Oswego Elk’s Lodge, 132 W. Fifth St., Oswego.
If you can read this, you are better off than over 18,000 people in Oswego County who can’t! They have trouble filling out a job application, understanding medicine labels or reading a story to their child. A study on National Adult Literacy that was released in December 2005 found little change in the ability of 21-24 percent of adults to read and understand the written word. YOU can make a difference in their lives.
Literacy Volunteers of Oswego County Family and Books project hosted a Book Drive in late July and early August. The goal was to collect new and gently used children’s books to redistribute them to children within our community.
Literacy Volunteers of Oswego County’s (LVOC) 11th Annual Golf Tournament at the Oswego Country Club was a “a great success, and raised more than $ 16,000 to help fight adult illiteracy in our county,†said Jane Murphy, LVOC executive director.
Corcoran graduated from college, was a high school teacher for seventeen years, and developed over $50 million in real estate, all while masking his inability to read. Corcoran is the author of “The Teacher Who Couldn’t Read†and “The Bridge to Literacy,†as well as the founder of the John Corcoran Foundation, whose goal is to raise awareness about the importance of literacy.
Literacy Volunteers of Oswego County, Inc. (LVOC) is seeking volunteer tutors who can offer two or more hours per week to assist adults learning reading, writing, English speaking and basic math. Tutors must have basic literacy skills. (ESL tutors do not need to speak a foreign language).
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