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For Immediate Release
Date: March 6, 2017
Contact: Leslie Piotrowski
(847) 377-8055
Hannah Goering
(847) 377-8099
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North Chicago Fire Chief Dell
Urban and Waukegan City Clerk Maria LaCour will read to children in both
English and Spanish at the next “Leaders are Readers” event at the North
Chicago Health Center, 2215 14th Street in North Chicago. This free
event will take place on Saturday, March 11, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Parents/guardians
of the children present are eligible to win free raffle prizes.
The Lake County Health Department launched the “Leaders are
Readers” series in relation to its commitment to the 30-Million-Word Campaign. The initiative is encouraging parents to read more
to their children, since there is a direct correlation between early verbal
experiences in childhood and later achievement.
Research shows
that children who are not exposed to enough words during their first years of
life often have vocabularies that are half the size of other children by age 3.
This puts them at a disadvantage when they start school.
The “Leaders are Readers” series takes place on the second
Saturday of each month. Reservations are unnecessary. For more information, please send an email to: KSingleton-reed@lakecountyil.gov.
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