November 6, 2023
One-year-old Knox Willmann holds up a book while mother Ashley Willmann reads to him and his siblings in November at their home in rural Portland. The family is one of many families in Jay County benefitting from the Imagination Library program handled locally by Jay County REMC. (The Commercial Review/Bailey Cline)
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Sparking imagination
Dolly Parton program through local affiliate REMC provides free books to children from birth through age 5
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library has gifted more than 220 million books — more than 2 million monthly — to children across the world in the last 28 years. As of Sept. 1, for the next two years Imagination Library affiliates in Indiana only pay 50% of their local program cost, with the other half matched by the state.
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