{"id":28382,"date":"2019-09-03T12:33:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T17:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=28382"},"modified":"2019-09-04T17:11:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T22:11:55","slug":"books-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=28382","title":{"rendered":"Books for kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/incoming\/4639465-w2msgf-090319.N.DNT.MyersWilkinsC4.jpg\/alternates\/BASE_LANDSCAPE\/090319.N.DNT.MyersWilkinsC4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Photo taken by the Trib&#8217;s Steve Kuchera.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nThe Second District seat I&#8217;m running for again has both rich and poor elementary school populations. Grant School, combined with Nettleton by the Red Plan, has a poverty rate of 85%. It has had some unique movers and shakers over my years on the School Board. Nettleton was once our Science magnet school and Grant was a foreign language magnet. Grant once had hundreds of adult mentors who worked with kids for a year at at time. As I recall, Men as Peacemakers, was one of the prime sponsors of the program and I participated for a year or two. The school has been rechristened as Myers-Wilkins Elementary.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Principal Amy Warden is attempting to buy new books for her children. She&#8217;d like to provide them each with a book a month to take home. The Trib has a story on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/education\/4634254-Myers-Wilkins-Elementary-asks-for-donations-to-help-literacy-among-students\">it here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>And this is how you can contribute to the cause:<\/p>\n<p><em>To donate, people can drop off cash, checks or money orders, or mail a check or money order to Myers-Wilkins Elementary, 1027 N. Eighth Ave. E., Duluth, MN 55805, Attn: Books for Kids.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo taken by the Trib&#8217;s Steve Kuchera. The Second District seat I&#8217;m running for again has both rich and poor elementary school populations. Grant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28382"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28408,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28382\/revisions\/28408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}