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By Mat Barrett

Adopt a School

Two local schools getting help from Indigo’s Love of Reading Foundation Adopt a School Program

Sep 20, 2019 | 8:59 AM

A couple of local schools will be getting some help in their libraries thanks to the Indigo Love of Reading Foundation’s Adopt a School Program.

Lake Lenore School and Drake Elementary School will both benefit from the program that gives each school a 50 book registry at different Coles, Indigo, or Chapters locations. When someone purchases a book off the registry, Indigo will match it, giving the school two new copies of a book. Library Technician at Lake Lenore, Rhona Brinkman said it was a time to celebrate when they found out they would be part of the program.

“We are a small school,” she said. “Funds are always tight, and it doesn’t matter if you’re a child in a small school, you still like to read new books.”

Lake Lenore consists of about 80 students from Kindergarten to Grade 12 and Brinkman said it can be pricy to keep an updated library, so it’s nice to get some assistance when they can.

“There’s lots of people that offer help,” Brinkman told northeastNOW. “And it’s really nice that those avenues are available for small schools because otherwise, our kids would lack when it comes to reading.”

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182 high-needs elementary schools have been “adopted” this year by various locations. For Lake Lenore, their Indigo store is the Coles at Saskatoon Market Mall.

The program requires that the school have a budget for their library that is less that $30 per student.

In Drake, Librarian Sheri Gibney said this will help continue updating their library outside of their current fundraising efforts.

“Virtually, right now, the only way that we get books in our school is by donations,” she said. “Or sales that we have from our annual book fair that will be coming up later in October.”

With their Elementary School of 56 students, Gibney said they’re looking for books of all sorts for their kids. Their registry will consist of non-fiction books, chapter books for all ages, and some ‘everybody books’ like picture books for younger kids.

“Kind of our goal when we had applied for this was to put one new book for each student in our library,” Gibney said. “And so, 56 books would do that.”

The Coles in Midtown Plaza is Drake’s location for the program.

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