Serving the 71st District with Mike Boland

This Wednesday, 12/6/06, Representative Boland will be at the Erie Public Library at 10:30 AM to present a READ, literacy promotion poster to the Erie Public Library. I wrote about this effort on the blog once before in a post titled - "Today's Readers are Tomorrow's Leaders."

For those unwilling to look back in the October archives, I'll revisit the details behind the promotion briefly here. Representative Boland was contacted by the Prairie Area Library System to take part in a literacy promotion. The resulting poster, featuring the slogan -Today's Readers are Tomorrow's Leaders, features a picture of Representative Boland reading to his Grandson. We've given away several framed posters to area libraries and Erie is the latest to receive Boland's gift.

Stories about politicians getting pay raises and such are so common these days, I'd like to make one more personal comment to accompany this post. For those taxpayer watchdogs out there, I'd like to proudly point out no tax dollars were used to produce the framed posters. Representative Boland has personally covered the full expense of the production and framing of the posters from his own pocket. These posters are his personal gift to area libraries as a token of his ongoing support for libraries and the critical resources they provide for our communities, and we all hope they are useful as a tool to promote reading and literacy for our local children.

At 1:00 tomorrow, 12/6/06, Rep Boland will be in Morrison at the FS Fast Stop Service station to promote his recently passed legislation regarding E85 fuel in Illinois. I wrote about this legislation previously here at "Serving the 71st District w/ Mike Boland."

# posted by Mike Huntoon @ 12:34 PM