NEWTON — The Catawba County Library, in partnership with The Nook Desk Group Kitchen and Backpack Program, will present baggage stuffed with meals at every department in the course of the 2022 Summer season Studying Program.
The Backpack Program serves youngsters in additional than 40 native faculties who face starvation on the weekends. Throughout the summer time months when faculty is just not in session, this system is unable to ship baggage of meals residence with college students. This partnership offers one other avenue to get meals to households in want, even when faculty is just not in session. Whereas the Backpack Program is geared towards youngsters underneath the age of 18, these baggage of meals can be found to everybody.
The luggage of meals are packed by volunteers from the Backpack Program and delivered weekly to the library. Every bag could have quite a lot of meals, together with canned items and snacks that may be eaten with out preparation. Households could select to go away undesirable objects for one more household to take.
The meals baggage will likely be accessible in any respect seven libraries from June 6 to August 22.
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“We’re so excited to accomplice with The Nook Desk to feed children and households this summer time!” says assistant director Siobhan Loendorf. “The addition of meals baggage to our Summer season Studying Program permits us to nurture thoughts and physique, preserving youngsters wholesome, engaged in studying and positioned for achievement once they return to high school within the fall.”
This 12 months’s summer time studying theme on the library is “Oceans of Potentialities” and consists of an thrilling mixture of applications together with storytimes, STEAM applications, performances, and academic applications from the North Carolina Aquarium, Hickory Music Manufacturing facility, Inexperienced Bean Gamers and Catawba County. parks To register, go to www.catawbacountync.gov/library or your native library.
For extra details about The Nook Desk, go to www.thecornertable.org or www.fb.com/thecornertablenc.
For particulars on Catawba County Library companies and assets, go to www.catawbacountync.gov/library, name 828-465-8665, electronic mail mylibrary@catawbacountync.gov or go to them on www.fb. com/catawbacountylibrarysystem.
