Community Reads: Wabasha Reads

SELCO's Community Reads Grant Program?is a subset of our Community Collaboration Grant. Designed specifically to aid libraries in their community-wide reading efforts, this program is intended to promote reading, research, and discovery through the sharing of perspectives among local residents who read the same book and participate in programs focused on the community selected title. Unlike Community Collaboration Grants, this is not a competitive grant program. It is reviewed by SELCO staff to assure compliance with state statutes. Each library may be awarded up to $1,500 toward its program, with funds able to be used to underwrite the honoraria and travel expenses of featured speakers and expand local advertising/marketing. The Wabasha Public Library chose the book "Locally Laid, How We Built a Plucky, Industry-Changing Egg Farm - From Scratch" by Lucie B. Amundsen for the Community Reads program. Twenty-five paperback copies of the book were available free to the public in the Wabasha and Kellogg communities. A program featuring the author, Lucie Amundsen took place on a Friday morning in May. Prior to Lucie's program, Julie Jacobs, a registered dietician from St. Elizabeth's Medical Center spoke on the health benefits of eggs and eating locally.