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Rebecca McManus, Center Director of Head Start, right, helps Oneonta sisters Laila Morten and Aaliya Little and their mother Jessica Morten look through their new bookshelf. "This is so wonderful." said Jessica Morten. "It's such and important thing for families to read to kids and this gives that opportunity to people who may not have that many books." The parking lot was a flurry of activity this afternoon Tenfold Plus members and Oneonta Job Corps students handed out over 90 personalized bookshelves to area children. Ten Fold Plus, the originator of the project collected thousands of children's books to stock the shelves, which were created over the winter by Oneonta Job Corps Cement Masons class. "It's bittersweet." said Mauel Moreno, one of the students who built the shelves. "We've worked on these for three months, and it's sad to see them go. But knowing (the shelves) would be going to kids, that was our motivation. Seeing the faces of the kids and their parents, seeing them loving what we made, it makes me proud I got a chance to do this." Oneonta Job Corps Academy director Chris Kuhn looked out over the sea of shelves being carried off, saying "I'm so happy to see them all go, but a little sad, too. I guess the only thing to beat those post-project blues is to think up something new!" (Ian Austin/AllOTSEGO.com
Rebecca McManus, right, Head Start Center director, helps Oneonta sisters Laila Morten and Aaliya Little and their mother Jessica Morten look through their new bookshelf, delivered today at the Oneonta Municipal Airport by Tenfold Plus, a women’s philanthropic organization that spent the winter gathering books to stack on shelves made by Job Corps.  “This is so wonderful.” said  Morten. “It’s such and important thing for families to read to kids and this gives that opportunity to people who may not have that many books.”  (Ian Austin/AllOTSEGO.com)

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