Providence Master Planned Community Hosts 6th Birthday of Kids to Kids With Literacy Festival

March 3 , 2007 - Kids to Kids celebrated its sixth birthday with a Children's Reading Festival at Providence, a 1,200-acre master planned community, on March 3.

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Kids to Kids is celebrating six years of giving the gift of reading in the form of books for the valley's area children, as well as helping literacy causes throughout Nevada.

See who was wishing Kids to Kids a happy birthday last year via video by clicking on the image below.

The Children's Literacy Festival featured games for children that integrated books as the central theme. Such games include Go Fish, inspired by the theme of the book, "The Rainbow Fish," a milk bottle tossing contest, representing the book, "Looks Like Spilled Milk" and a book walk.

Readings by authors were scheduled throughout the day from such notables as Ruth Devlin, who authored "Desert Seasons," Frank Fiorello, a children's author who wrote "When I Read," and local talents including NBC Channel 3's Maria Silva, Miss Nevada Mistie Williams and Miss Teen Nevada Megan Franco.

Participants at the celebration enjoyed free food and refreshments from hot dog and lemonade stands while children visited the Festival's interactive arts and crafts booths. At these booths, volunteers were on hand to help children create bookmarks and butterflies and to teach them how to make a paper pizza from materials donated by Pizza Hut.

A key part of the event schedule included the opportunity for parents to tour the model homes of Providence, while their children were entertained by storytellers.

Kids to Kids' sixth birthday celebration also marked the conclusion of the organization's annual Pennies for Pages Read-a-Thon. Approximately 12,000 young people, all of whom are at-risk students, participate in the program, which encourages donations for each page of a book a child reads.

Kids to Kids' mission of spreading the joy of reading throughout the community parallels Providence's theme of celebrating Americana through the literary legacy of the country's greatest writers.

Focus Property Group, master planner of Providence, seeks to create community outreach programs within each of its master plans that address a social cause within the community. Providence is focusing its community outreach efforts in the area of literacy and has formed a partnership with Kids to Kids.

Providence's long-standing relationship with Kids to Kids will ensure that numerous activities are held annually that help build a strong community that values reading and creativity. The community's parks ultimately will play host to storytelling festivals, writer’s workshops, cowboy poetry festivals, chataquas and much more.

In keeping with Focus Property Group's philosophy of creating new communities with a sense of depth and character, Providence revels in the small town traditions of the American Dream, and celebrates the optimism of American frontiers and the American West. In the community's parks and public spaces, Providence will celebrate the diversity of American voices that inspire and reflect the character and genius that is America.

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