Redlands’ Smiley Library’s Adult Literacy
program welcomes new face
Redlands
Daily Facts: 12.04.2014 by Kristina Hernandez
A
part-time literacy coordinator has been hired to help expand the A.K. Smiley Public
Library’s Literacy Program.
Dottie
Podolak, an educator who has worked for the Redlands Unified School District,
will join Katherine Gifford and Trudy Waldron, volunteer literacy coordinators,
to create new opportunities for students.
“I’m
very excited to be coming in to a wonderful program and to be a part of the
Smiley Library,” Podolak said by phone Thursday. “The hope for us as we look
ahead is to continue to really deepen the program that has already been
established.”
According
to the library, 15 to 20 percent of adults in the country are in need of
literacy assistance; the program’s goal is to assist adults 18 and older to
improve their reading and writing skills.
The
program has assisted more than 220 adults in the past four years.
“There
is definitely a need for this program and the program has been really held up
by these two wonderful volunteers, Trudy and Katherine, who have dedicated
themselves to this cause. To come in and work with them is a privilege,”
Podolak said. READ
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