Early morning on the GCC mall. The first GCC Readfest is ready to go. Hundreds are expected. Dozens of volunteers make last minute plans in the shade.
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A display in the library foyer created by Dave Gallet, a library assistant, invites everyone to "Reap the Benefits of Reading". Dave also decorated the mall podium.
Hundreds of kids bused in from elementary schools throughout the valley. First they registered and collected gift bags.
Morning
welcome and story reading by Joyce Elsner, Dean of Administravie
Sevices for GCC.
Hundreds of kids still in line for goodies. We eliminated lines in 1997.
See Him in the Arizona
Republic and Winter
96.
Brad Johnson's law firm of Jacoby &
Meyers helped sponsor Readfest 96.
Readfest 96 Theme:
Reap the Benefits of Reading
KTVK-TV political commentator Jana Bommersbach
told scary stories from her book The Trunk Murderess: Winnie Ruth Judd,
The Truth About an American Crime Legend Revealed at Last.
See her in the Voice.
Young listeners sat on hay
bales in big semi-circles.
Davida Guse interprets into sign language a story read by Cindy Blodgett, from the Alhambra School District
Tessa Martinez Pollack
sat close to her audience
to read her story.
