CAMDEN — The Camden Noon Lion’s Club awarded four local students bookcases and books to promote summer reading at the clubs regular meeting this week.
The bookcases are given away to students in the area who completed their reading calendars for the year. The students are supposed to read or be read to for 15 minutes a day between October and April. The Lion’s Club draws the names of two boys and two girls from the list of children who completed the required reading.
The 2017 winners were Hunter Roten, 6, Sarah Looney, 7, and Aaden Evans, 7 - all from Fairview Elementary School; and Anne Marie Kirksey, 6, from Victory Christian School.
Lion’s Club Secretary Charlotte Young said that this is the fifth year for the club to participate in the program, which means 20 bookcases filled with books have been given to children since the program began.
The bookcases are built by Ouachita County Habitat for Humanity and the books are donated.
Lion’s Club member Christy Glaze stated that this year many of the books were thanks to a donation from Generation’s Bank.