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Favourite words and Facebook pics highlight lead up to Family Literacy Day in Grand Forks

With Family Literacy Day in Grand Forks on Friday, Jan. 25, reading, fun with words and sharing ideas will be front and centre.
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The Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy

With Family Literacy Day in Grand Forks on Friday, Jan. 25, reading, fun with words and sharing ideas will be front and centre.

Informal learning is much of what family literacy is all about – life-long learning and the wide scope of understanding achieved through curiosity.

According to Sheila Dobie, community literacy co-ordinator for the Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy (CBAL), a favourite word contest and 15 minutes of fun photo submissions will be amongst the events.

The favourite word contest will take place in the week’s leading up to Family Literacy Day and invites people to submit a favourite word. See the ad on this page for more details.

People can drop off their favourite word entry submissions to either the Grand Forks Gazette office (7255 Riverside Drive) or the Grand Forks and District Public Library (7342 Fifth St.) by Jan. 24.

“That’s basically going to be five randomly chosen words and then we’ll put together a booklet of all of the submissions and have those at the Grand Forks and District Public Library,” explained Dobie. “The 15 minutes of fun are simple submissions as well but this is a photo and a write-up, inviting families to submit ideas that they do as a family for 15 minutes of fun, together,” she said.

Amongst ideas for 15 minutes of fun suggested by ABC Life Literacy Canada, re-creating and ending to a favourite book, creating a comic strip about your family, writing a silly story and telling it to family members at dinner time and creating a family tree.

The photo and the write-up will go on CBAL’s Facebook page and Dobie says there will be related draws for both promotions.

“On the Friday at 2 p.m. at the library on the 25th, we’ll do both of those draws and both of those celebrations around the favourite word contest and 15 minutes of fun,” she went on to say.

Family Literacy Day (which takes place all week leading up to Jan. 27 around Canada) is observed nationally to raise awareness about the importance families taking part in reading and similar activities.

The initiative was created by ABC Life Literacy Canada in 1999.



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