LAKE COUNTY — The Lake County Literacy Task Force (LCLTF) celebrated its third anniversary at the Lake County Office of Education on Nov. 5.
The LCLTF has a vision that everyone in the county, youth, adults and seniors are able to read and have a desire to read.
The task force supports four literacy programs in the county.
The Big Read, which promotes adult literacy through focusing on an author and novel.
Lake County Reads is a program supported by service clubs that purchase books for elementary school libraries and has a service club member read the book at the school.
Schools of Hope is a joint program of the Lakeport Unified School District and the United Way that provides reading tutors for low readers in the primary grades.
The primary focus of the celebration was the fourth program of the task force, Imagination Library.
The program, sponsored by the Dolly Parton Foundation, offers books to children in Lake County.
For $25 per year, a child up to the age of 5 will receive one age-appropriate book each month through the mail.
The purpose of the program is to prepare every child for kindergarten by having the child become familiar with books.
During the last year, Imagination Library has provided almost 1,200 books to children in the community. According to Wally Holbrook, Lake County superintendent of schools, the goal is “to put a book into the hands of every young child in the county.”
Currently, 18-percent of the preschool children in the county receive a book every month.
For information, call 262-4163.
