Articles by Mary Lyon
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Bangor Area Breakfast Rotary Donates $6,500 to Literacy Volunteers
BANGOR – On March 21st, the Bangor Area Breakfast Rotary hosted its 8th annual All That Jazz concert at Bangor High School’s Peakes Auditorium. Four area music groups –Bangor H.S. Jazz Band, Old Town H.S. Concert Band, Orono Jazz Ensemble, and Bangor Symphony Youth Orchestras – entertained a crowd of ...
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Literacy Volunteers Needed: New Tutor Training Session Starts April 1st
(Bangor, Maine) – Each day, 20% of our local community members struggle with daily literacy activities such as helping their children with homework and reading prescription instructions. Literacy Volunteers of Bangor is offering a chance to make a difference in these lives by tutoring Bangor area adults who need assistance ...
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Literacy volunteers needed: New tutor training to begin Jan. 23
BANGOR, Maine — Each day, 20 percent of local community members struggle with daily literacy activities such as helping their children with homework and reading prescription instructions. Literacy Volunteers of Bangor is offering a chance to make a difference in these lives by tutoring Bangor area adults who need assistance ...
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Literacy Volunteers Needed New Tutor Training Session Begins January 16
(Bangor, Maine) – Each day, 20% of our local community members struggle with daily literacy activities such as helping their children with homework and reading prescription instructions. Literacy Volunteers of Bangor is offering a chance to make a difference in these lives by tutoring Bangor area adults who need assistance ...
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Become a Volunteer Tutor
BANGOR, Maine — Tutoring an adult in reading or the English language only takes a few hours and week, though the positive effects last a lifetime. Literacy Volunteers of Bangor has announced its 2013 Tutor Training. The Winter Session begins 6-9 p.m. Wednesday , Jan. 16. The Spring Session begins ...
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Capehart Families participate in family reading adventure
BANGOR, Maine — On the first school day after one of the nation’s worst school shootings, nearly 100 families gathered in the Capehart neighborhood at the Davis Road Community Center in Bangor. Parenting adults accompanied their elementary school children and gathered as a community in support of their children’s early ...
Become a volunteer tutor, give the gift of literacy
BANGOR, Maine — Literacy Volunteers of Bangor announced its 2013 Tutor Training schedule. The Winter Session will begin 6-9 p.m. Wednesday , Jan. 16. The Spring Session will start 6-9 p.m. Monday, April 1. Both sessions meet for six weeks at at United Technologies Center, 200 Hogan Road. A fee of ...
Give the Gift of Literacy in 2013: Become a Volunteer Tutor
Tutoring an adult in reading or the English language only takes a few hours and week, though the positive effects last a lifetime. Literacy Volunteers of Bangor has announced its 2013 Tutor Training. The Winter Session starts Wednesday , January 16th from 6 – 9 p.m. The Spring Session starts ...
Literacy Volunteers announces Tutor Training Winter Session
BANGOR, Maine — Literacy Volunteers of Bangor announced its 2013 Tutor Training Winter Session will begin 6-9 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16, at United Technologies Center, 200 Hogan Road. The Spring Session will begin 6-9 p.m. Monday, April 1. Both sessions last for six sessions. The fee of $35 to help ...
Literacy Volunteers announces fall tutor training schedule
BANGOR, Maine — Literacy Volunteers of Bangor will begin its fall tutor training at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, and continuing through Tuesday, Nov. 13, at United Technologies Center, 200 Hogan Road. The course fee is $35; scholarships are available. To access a list of training dates and times, visit www.lvbangor.org ...
Literacy Volunteers looking for help
BANGOR, Maine — For about 25 percent of our population, reading proficiently is difficult and sometimes impossible. Teaching an adult to read or speak English does not require an education degree or fluency in another language. It does require patience, an interest in learning about others, and desire to transform ...
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