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MWCC Students Donate Over 750 Books to Promote Early Childhood Literacy

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A group of adults stand with first graders.
MWCC’s Otaku United club members stand with first graders from Gardner’s Waterford Street School. Pictured from left to right are: Waterford School Counselor Terry Burnham, Otaku United President Cassandra Cohen, Otaku United Alumna Andrea Bartlett, Otaku United Treasurer Rebekah Cohen, Otaku United Vice President Jonathan Cohen, and Waterford Street School Teacher Peter Pianka.

For the fourth year, hundreds of kindergarten and first grade students in Gardner will end the school year with engaging summertime reading to take home, thanks to a donation of over 750 books from a group of Mount Wachusett Community College students.

Otaku United, a club that celebrates Asian culture, donated over 750 books to Waterford Street School, Elm Street School and the Garrison Center located at MWCC. The books were purchased with funds that the club raised in April through a silent auction of a wide range of gift cards and items donated to the club to support the cause.

The age-appropriate books were purchased through the Scholastic Reading Club. The donation is designed to help maintain reading momentum through the summer. The donated books will augment the district’s summer reading challenge program.