{"id":117184,"date":"2021-03-29T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=117184"},"modified":"2021-03-29T21:20:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T01:20:00","slug":"canastota-alumni-association-donates-1000-to-book-program-for-preschoolers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=117184","title":{"rendered":"Canastota Alumni Association donates $1,000 to book program for preschoolers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In keeping with one of their goals to help meet the educational needs of the Canastota Central School District, the Canastota Alumni Association donated $1,000 to the Canastota Public Library to support its partnership with the Dolly Parton Imagination Library Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Preschoolers enrolled in the program are mailed a book a month until their fifth birthday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The program typically serves 300 to 325 preschoolers per month; about 21,000 books have been mailed out since 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Originally, the program was sponsored by a grant from the CNY Community Foundation.&nbsp;Since 2015, the library, through its annual budget and donations from groups and individuals, partners with the Dolly Parton\u2019s Foundation in continuing this worthwhile program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information, call the library at 315.697.7030, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canastotalibrary.org\/about\/\">https:\/\/www.canastotalibrary.org\/about\/<\/a> or stop in at 102 W. Center St., Canastota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In keeping with one of their goals to help meet the educational needs of the Canastota Central School District, the Canastota Alumni Association donated $1,000 to the Canastota Public Library to support its partnership with the Dolly Parton Imagination Library Program. Preschoolers enrolled in the program are mailed a book a month until their fifth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23813,65,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-libraries","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/unnamed.png?fit=395%2C296&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-uu4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}