Karen Wild and Nancy Smith visited and provided the program for the Carrollton Kiwanis Club on July 22, 2022 in the Hubbard Dining Room.  The Ferst Readers Organization represents childhood reading and literacy.  The Kiwanis Foundation supports Ferst Readers with a donation.
 
Stand-out take-a ways:  If you support literacy why can't you spell "first".  Answer:  It is named from the last name of the founder.  Robin Ferst founded the foundation in 1999.  History
 
"Children learn to read in the first three grades.  From the third grade and on, children read to learn."
 
 
 
Photo:   Dale Williams, Kiwanis President presents check to Karen Wild and Nancy Smith.
 
 
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