Sandy’s Summer Splash Into Reading
Hall of Fame 2024
Greater Wausau Area’s reading incentive program & literacy fundraiser
46 awesome Wausau Area kids DOUBLED the funds we raised in 2023!
$4,382.36 will go to Wausau Area literacy initiatives!
2024 Pledge Sponsors
These generous sponsors pledged a combined total of $5,275* to the Wausau Early Birds Rotary Club Reading to Go program and McLit – Marathon County Literacy Council. The top two sponsors donated the remainder of their pledges to the Bookfair at Wausau Barnes & Noble to purchase books for the beneficiaries!
*Pledges:
Connexus Association – $2,000 – TWO PENNIES PER MINUTE
PENNY PER MINUTE SPONSORS:
Office Enterprises, Inc. – $750 | Inspired by Design Interiors – $500 | JARP – $500 | Dovorany Orthodontics – $500 | Westphal Staffing – $300 | Wausau Tax & Accounting – $225 | SK Design – $200 | Astia Health – $200 | Mosinee Family Dental – $100
2024 Prizes
First fifty registered participants received a sticker sheet!
Parents received FREE COFFEE PERKS for every reading log they submit!
Award Ceremony and Book Fair
Wausau Barnes & Noble
226810 Rib Mountain Dr
Wausau, WI 54401
Friday, July 26, 2024
11:00 – 11:30am
Kids and parents joined us as fundraising totals and top winners were announced, and to see who won the grand prize drawing!
Prizes ~ Giveaways ~ Book Fair
THANK YOU, 2024 PRIZE SPONSORS!
LITERACY PROGRAM BENEFICIARIES
Wausau Early Birds Rotary Club Reading to Go Program
The Wausau Early Birds Rotary Club Reading to Go program is a group of caring Rotary members who teach early literacy strategies in collaboration with Wausau School District, D.C. Everest School District and Newman Catholic Schools.
McLit – Marathon County Literacy Council
McLit Mission: Improving quality of life through literacy
McLit Vision: To be an organization that provides educational information and resources to everyone through the promotion of literacy programs, and support those in need by mentoring, tutoring, teaching, and coaching.
McLit tutors find themselves addressing our community’s growing ESL (English as a second language) tutoring needs.
BENEFITS OF FUNDING LOCAL LITERACY
Local literacy initiatives help the people in our own community reduce poverty, improve health, reduce the probability of incarceration and become upwardly mobile!
NEWS
Who’s Sandy?
~ From the event organizer and author-illustrator, Jessica Kopecky
Sandy is the main character of Secret of the Starflower: Rainbow of Spectra, an award-winning, full-color children’s chapter book I published in the summer of 2021. Parents gave feedback that the story engaged their reluctant readers. The following summer I created a yearly reading program to further incentivize young readers and boost literacy.
