The Kearney Dawn Rotary Club will purchase a 4-5 shelf bookcase, and purchase a collection of children's books to establish a new library. Books will be purchased from Hastings Book Store, where the club will receive an educational discount from the store. The discount could be up to a 40% discount depending on the book category, title and publisher. The books manager has agreed to assemble the collection based on the following age groups:
Ages 1-3: Picture books, touch and feel, pop-up (ie: Good Night Moon)
Ages 4-6: Read along, and beginning readers (ie: Dr. Suess, Curious George)
Ages 7-10: Award Winners, (ie: Caldecott Medal Books)
Ages 11+: Popular young readers, novels (ie: Harry Potter)
All books will have stickers recognizing the Kearney Dawn Rotary Club as the organization that has donated the book. The book case will have an engraved plate with the rotary logo, and again recognizing the Kearney Dawn Rotary Club for donating the library and the year established.
The library will be sustained by the Kearney Dawn Rotary Club by adding additional titles from time to time by club members. Club members may also make scheduled visits to Crossroads to read to the kids.
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Crossroads Mission - Kearney Campus
Crossroads is a public shelter for homeless families. The mission is to offer a Christ-centered, four-phase program
of recovery to homeless men, women and children.
Crossroads' receives 99% of their financial support from individuals, churches, fundraisers, private grants, and local businesses. They provide free food, shelter and clothing to their
guests while they are completing the four-phase program. Currently there are four families (4 moms, 4 dads and 16 children) residing at Crossroads.
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