We’re in the season of trips and cruises and summer houses (lucky ducks!), but your loyal Director of Educational Programs is here at the keyboard with your June tutor updates.
Fifteen of you attended our Tutor Talk on June 3, and for those of you who couldn’t come, you missed our presenter, Jasmine Sarabia, owner of La Jarochita in Manchester, speak about growing up Latina in Carroll County and the important role that adult education played in the lives of her family members. I put together some packets of the handouts from our get-together, so if you’d like to pick one up next time you’re near the office, please stop by.
Also at our meeting, tutor Christine Elahi recommended an ESOL resource: 47 ESL Conversation Topics by Jackie Bolen, available through the Carroll County Public Library on Hoopla. It is similar to a text (Preston Lee’s Conversation English for Spanish Speakers) that Ronnie Bohn uses with her English conversation group in Mt. Airy. We have a copy in office if you’d like to look through it, and it’s available on Amazon for $16. If anyone else has a book or other material you enjoy using with your student(s), please let me know, and I’ll highlight that information in upcoming newsletters.
Our newly-started tutor fundraising group met this month, and we generated a nice list of ideas. One of the prospects at the top of our agenda is a Literacy Council cookbook, an idea originally suggested by tutor Deb Gill. While we’re still working on the shape it will take, there will undoubtedly be a chapter dedicated to tutor recipes, so this is your official first call for your favorite dishes. Please send your recipes to my email (estacks@carrollliteracy.org).
Our biggest fundraiser of the year, the 16th Annual Charity Golf Tournament, will be held on Friday, August 22 at Quail Valley Golf Course in Littlestown, PA. If you’d like to play, single golfers are $125, and a foursome is $500. Registration and breakfast will be at 7 a.m., with the Shotgun Start following at 8 a.m. Lunch, awards, and prizes will be held at noon. We’re also in need of volunteers to help with the event, so if you’d like to pitch in some time, let us know.
We’re up to five reviews for the Literacy Council of Carroll County on www.greatnonprofits.org,
so we need five more before becoming a Top-Rated Nonprofit for 2025. Thanks to those who took the time to write, and let’s see if we can get at least five more reviews in the following month!
Finally, what is a literacy council if we don’t talk books? I’m going to continue Paul’s tradition by asking you what you’re reading this summer. I’ll begin with one I just finished and loved so much that I ordered my own copy: Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island by Earl Swift. In a week’s time I’ll be on Tangier myself, and this book will be at the forefront of my mind. Sam’s recommendation, another seafaring nonfiction book- this one about a British ship headed for South America on a secret mission during the Imperial War with Spain- is The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann. Next month we’ll hear Jamie and Janice’s recommendations, as well as those that you send in to me. Stay tuned, and stay cool.
