Based on nightly conversations with her daughter throughout her youth, this story was the culmination of nearly a year and a half of consistent and persistent work on Pietruszka’s part to put together a piece she had been dreaming of for years.…
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Donna Foote
Santa Claus visits the Huntington Memorial Library twice each year. He ventures down from the North Pole in July and December for these special days. During the event on Tuesday, Claus read two books to the kids.…
“[PaintFest was] one of the very first events that we conceived of and organized. We actually weren’t even officially a not-for-profit at that point,” Rachel Rissberger, sitting OWL board secretary and first organization president, said when asked about PaintFest’s legacy.…
The OWL Book Nook opening on Saturday, February 1 was attended by about two dozen people and featured a variety of fun events, including a reading by Huntington Memorial Library Youth Coordinator Donna Foote of books with neurodivergent characters, toys and books as door prizes, and cookies the children could decorate themselves.…
Griswold’s Gold Award project is titled “Reaching Neurodiverse Children Through Reading.” According to a media release, she completed research to understand the issues facing neurodiverse children as they develop reading skills, and interviewed a variety of local experts...…
