Mayor, Police Chief Visit Stripling for Read Across America
Mayor Bucky Johnson and Police Chief Warren Summers visited the elementary school to read Dr. Seuss books to classes.
Read Across America was last Friday, March 2, and Stripling Elementary had the priviledge of Norcross Mayor Bucky Johnson and Police Chief Warren Summers reading books to three classrooms. "It's just a wonderful way for [the students] to realize that reading is important to adults," said Mary Beth Duty, the media specialist at Stripling who organized the school's event. For the holiday that also doubles as Dr. Seuss' birthday, Johnson and Summers were among the 25 volunteers at Stripling who visited classrooms and encouraged reading to kids. Summers read "Cat in the Hat" to a second grade class and also brought some kids' activities from the police department, while the mayor read "Horton Hears a Hoo" to two fourth-grade classrooms. "…
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