MANSFIELD — More than 4,100 children in Richland County receive a free book every month through the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. That program is now at risk of ending due to a funding shortfall. Julie Chaya, commissioner of Richland Public Health, said there is about five months’ worth of local matching funds needed to keep the […]
Dolly Parton Imagination Library
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Ohio’s 1st Lady Fran DeWine visits Mansfield to promote free book initiative
MANSFIELD — Fran DeWine still remembers the moment she decided what her mission as First Lady would be. Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library mails a free book to more than 2 million children around the world each month. DeWine learned about the program years ago from two of its beneficiaries — her own grandchildren. “I was with […]
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Dolly Parton Imagination Library program gets revival in Richland County
MANSFIELD — Hello again, Dolly. The Dolly Parton Imagination Library has returned to Richland County through a collaboration of Richland Public Health, Richland County Youth & Family Council and the local Community Health Access Project. The announcement about the popular literacy program came Tuesday morning during a Richland County Board of Commissioners meeting. In the […]