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Why Literacy Matters
I challenge EACH one of us to “Step Out on Nothing†and make a difference to: a child, a parent, an employee or co-worker, a client accessing the government or human service we provide, a family member, friend, neighbor, or fellow churchgoer.
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Oswego Sunrise Rotary Collects Cans To Support Literacy
Members of the Oswego Sunrise Rotary Club are collecting cans to support literacy.
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Rotary Hears Of Literacy Problems In Oswego County
Literacy Volunteers of Oswego County Director Jane Murphy met with the Oswego Sunrise Rotary recently. She updated the club on her organization’s programs and progress.
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Lanigan ELA Reading Night Makes Literacy Fun
The halls of Lanigan Elementary School were filled with red fruit punch mustaches, cheese puff orange fingertips and the joy of reading at the English Language Art Reading Night held recently at the school.
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Rotarian Distributes Dictionaries To School Students
Each year, the Fulton Rotary Club, purchases over 300 dictionaries and gives a copy to all of the Third Grade students in the Fulton Consolidated School District.
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Minetto Family Literacy Night Draws Hundreds
The annual Minetto Elementary School Literacy Night brought together students, parents and teachers for a Halloween themed reading experience.
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Breaking the Poverty Cycle through Literacy
Literacy Volunteers of Oswego County is part of a national network of literacy organizations offering adult education programs to help Americans break the poverty cycle that too often passes from one generation to the next.
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LVOC Presents ‘The Teacher Who Couldn’t Read’: His Story
In 1961, he graduated college; by 1979, he had taught 17 years of high school English; in the early 1980s he made $50 million dollars in real-estate development – all this before he learned to read. Literacy advocate and author John Corcoran will be sharing his story at Literacy Volunteers of Oswego County’s (LOVC) 25th anniversary dinner on Wed., Sept. 30.
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Local Support Helps Bring ‘Teacher Who Couldn’t Read’ To Celebrate Literacy Volunteers’ 25th Anniversary
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.