In partnership with Rotary Clubs across the Eastern Panhandle, the Berkeley Springs Rotary Club recently conducted its Second Grade Book Project.
Each second-grade student at Paw Paw, Pleasant View and Widmyer Elementary Schools, 145 students in total, received a book bag containing nine books donated by the Berkeley Springs Rotary Club.
The project aims to help students maintain or increase their reading proficiency during the summer break from school and to encourage a lifelong interest in reading.
Berkeley Springs Rotary Club members, Berkeley Springs High School Rotary Interact Club members and Morgan County Schools staff packing the book bags were: front row, left to right: Daryl Cowles, Danelle Smith, Miyah Saville, Alivia Arnold, Clara Payne, McKenna Saville and Heather Sigel. Back row: Corbin Waugh and Derek Johns.Berkeley Springs Rotary Club members, Berkeley Springs High School Rotary Interact Club members and Morgan County Schools staff distributing the books were, left to right: Danelle Smith, Luke Christie, Audrey Helmick, Terri Beard and Josiah Wilder.
