{"id":6970,"date":"2014-08-12T12:06:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T16:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=6970"},"modified":"2014-08-12T12:06:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T16:06:07","slug":"commissioners-give-2500-to-coatesville-summer-reading-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=6970","title":{"rendered":"Commissioners give $2,500 to Coatesville Summer Reading Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_921310\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Summer-reading-081114-300x243.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-921310\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-921310\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"Summer-reading-081114\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Summer-reading-081114-300x243.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-921310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chester County Commissioners Ryan Costello (seated lower right), Kathi Cozzone (back third from right) and Terence Farrell (back third from left) present a check to the administrators, board members, volunteers and some of the children participating in the Coatesville Summer Reading Program.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>WEST CHESTER \u2014<b>\u00a0<\/b>Chester County Commissioners presented a check for $2,500 to Chester County volunteer administrators, board members and participants in the Coatesville Summer Reading Program.<\/p>\n<p>The donation from the County is being used to help cover the cost of the food program, educational materials and rental expenses.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>More than 125 children are registered for this year\u2019s Summer Reading Program sponsored by Backing Our Young Sons (BOYS) and Giving Girls Guidance (G3), Inc. a non-profit organization.\u00a0 The program is located at the Child Guidance Resource Center on Chester Avenue in Coatesville.\u00a0 Now in its second year, the project grew out of the BOYS and G3 mentoring program.\u00a0 Also endorsed by the Coatesville Area School District, children from kindergarten through fifth grade attend from Monday to Thursday for writing and reading programs with teachers and volunteers.\u00a0 Computer programs that support the reading and writing programs are available at the bank of computers donated by area businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST CHESTER \u2014\u00a0Chester County Commissioners presented a check for $2,500 to Chester County volunteer administrators, board members and participants in the Coatesville Summer Reading Program. The donation from the County is being used to help cover the cost of the food program, educational materials and rental expenses. &nbsp;&nbsp; Send article as PDF &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[147,4353],"class_list":["post-6970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chester-county-commissioners","tag-coatesville-summer-reading-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}