Family reading event at school draws 75 attendees

Over 75 adults and children in pre-K through fifth grade were present at the second “Unwrap the Gift of Reading” event which took place on Tuesday, December 2, at the Odessa School. The concept for starting a tradition of wrapping books up to be opened over the days prior to Christmas came from an idea the elementary teachers saw posted online last winter. The event was so popular that the staff proposed doing it again this year.

At the family night, the children, accompanied by their parents, moved from station to station. In the library, they listened to story readers: Mark Cronrath, Apryl W...