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"I encourage anyone who would like to support literacy initiatives in Nova Scotia to learn more about the excellent work being done by the Adopt-a-Library Literacy Program." 

The Honourable Karen Casey
Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development

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PRESS RELEASE
06 May 2014

Another banner year for the WOW! World Reading Challenge!

This year’s top Pictou County winners are Walter Duggan Elementary School and Thorburn Junior High School!

In addition, Pictou County schools brought home several other medals too. Pictou Landing Elementary School’s outstanding effort this year earned their school a gold medal, and a 1st place standing in the First Nation Division for Elementary Schools. W.A. MacLeod Elementary School placed 3rd in the Tartan Division for Elementary Schools, bringing home the bronze medal (Walter Duggan Elementary School, and A.G Baillie Elementary School are both past champions in this category). And the Pictou Landing GED won the Gold medal in the Justice Division.

A number of schools in Pictou County participated in the 2014 WOW! Reading Challenge sponsored by the Adopt-a-Library Literacy Program (which ran from November 2013 to April 2014). In total 88 schools participated in the program this year from Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, consisting of 14,562 students.  Overall they read an outstanding total of 1,332,199 books at the elementary level and 1,418,673 pages at the Junior High and High School Levels.

 The WOW! Reading Challenge is hosted by the Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library through a partnership with the RCMP, local policing agencies, schools, school boards and community sponsors.

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For more information regarding the Adopt-a-Library Literacy Program, please contact the Provincial Coordinator,

Cst. John Kennedy, RCMP
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1(902) 755-6031 or toll-free 1(866)779-7761
Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library, Headquarters
www.parl.ns.ca

To the Staff at New Glasgow Library and to the Adopt-a-Library Program:

We’d like to thank all involved in the New Glasgow Adopt-a-Library Program.

When the Little Free Library was opened here in Little Harbour, I set out children’s books in the lower quarter section of the library. This turned out to be the most popular section for books taken. We were happy to see that children were taking the books... but as a result, that section was diminishing . My husband (who built the Little Library) called the New Glasgow Library, who responded by getting together a whole box of brand new children’s books for us.

I check the library every day or so, and have been able to continually replenish the children’s section, thanks to the Adopt-a-Library. Since adults tend to bring extra books to overflow, we are glad to keep the children’s section topped up exclusively with Children’s books. And we still have some to insure that this section remains viable.  

Sincere best wishes with your program. I think it’s great!
And thank you so much for your help,
Dawn

Dawn MacNutt, Sculptor, RCA
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web: www.dawnmacnutt.com

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FINAL NUMBERS:

• 70 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
• 24 JUNIOR HIGH AND HIGH SCHOOLS
• 16,710 STUDENTS
• 1,105,347 BOOKS READ BETWEEN NOV. 1ST 2014 AND APRIL 1ST 2015 AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL.
• 1,718,537 PAGES READ BETWEEN DECEMBER 1ST 2014 AND APRIL 1ST 2015 AT THE JUNIOR HIGH AND HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL.

County Winners:

Antigonish County

• Tartan Division Elementary: EAST ANTIGONISH EDUCATION CENTRE

Cape Breton County

• Fiddler’s Division Elementary: DONKIN-GOWRIE COMPLEX ELEMENTARY
• Tartan Division Elementary: BRETON EDUCATION CENTER
• Fiddler’s Division Middle School: BADDECK ACADEMY MIDDLE SCHOOL
• Tartan Division Middle School: MALCOLM MUNROE MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH

Colchester County

• Fiddler’s Division : WEST COLCHESTER CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL

Cumberland County

• Tartan Division Elementary: OXFORD REGIONAL EDUCATION CENTER ELEMENTARY
• Fiddler’s Division Middle School: RIVER HEBERT DISTRICT JR. HIGH
• Tartan Division Middle School: SPRINGHILL JR. HIGH
• Fiddler’s Division High School: RIVER HEBERT DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL
• TARTAN DIVISION HIGH SCHOOL : SPRINGHILL DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOL

Digby County

• Fiddler’s Division Elementary: ECOLE SAINT-ALBERT
• Tartan Division Elementary: WEYMOUTH CONSOLIDATED
• Tartan Division Middle School : DIGBY REGIONAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Halifax County

• Tartan Division Elementary : CAVALIER DRIVE ELEMENTARY

Hants County

• Fiddler’s Division Elementary : Uniacke District Elementary
• Tartan Division Elementary: UNIACKE DISTRICT ELEMENTARY
• Fiddler’s Division  Middle School: HANTS NORTH RURAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
• Tartan Division Middle School: RIVERSIDE EDUCATION CENTER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Inverness County

• Fiddler’s Division Elementary: WEKOQMAQ MIKMAQ ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Kings County

• Fiddler’s Division: KING’S REGIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER

Pictou County

• Fiddler’s Division Elementary: RIVER JOHN CONSOLIDATED ELEMENTARY
• Tartan Division Elementary: WALTER DUGGAN ELEMENTARY
• Fiddler’s Division Middle School; THORBURN CONSOLIDATED JUNIOR HIGH
• Tartan Division Middle School: NEW GLASGOW ACADEMY JUNIOR HIGH

Queens County

• Tartan Division: DR. JOHN C WICKWIRE ELEMENTARY

Richmond County

• Fiddler’s Division: MIKMEWEY ELEMENTARY

Shelburne County

• Fiddler’s Division Elementary: EVELYN RICHARDSON MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY
• Tartan Division Elementary: HILLCREST ACADEMY

Victoria County

• Fiddler’s Division Elementary BADDECK ACADEMY ELEMENTARY
• Fiddler’s Division Middle School : CABOT JUNIOR HIGH
• Fiddler’s Division High School: BADDECK ACADEMY

Yarmouth County

• Fiddler’s Division Elementary: PLYMOUTH ELEMENTARY
• Tartan Division Elementary: YARMOUTH CENTRAL ELEMENTARY

OVERALL WOW WINNERS:

FIDDLER’S DIVISION ELEMENTARY:

RIVER JOHN ELEMENTARY…………………GOLD
PLYMOUTH ELEMENTARY…………………SILVER
DONKIN-GOWRIE ELEMENTARY………..BRONZE

TARTAN DIVISION ELEMENTARY:

WALTER DUGGAN ELEMENTARY………..GOLD
BRETON EDUCATION CENTER……………SILVER
ST. ANNES ELEMENTARY…………………..BRONZE (Tie)
YARMOUTH CENTRAL ELEMENTARY….BRONZE ( Tie)

FIDDLER’S DIVISION JUNIOR HIGH:

WEST COLCHESTER JUNIOR HIGH…………….GOLD
HANTS NORTH RURAL JUNIOR HIGH………..SILVER
THORBURN JUNIOR HIGH………………………..BRONZE

TARTAN DIVISION JUNIOR HIGH:

SYDNEY MINES JUNIOR HIGH…………………..GOLD
RIVERSIDE JUNIOR HIGH………………………….SILVER
W.A. MACLEOD……………………………………….BRONZE

FIDDLER’S DIVISION HIGH SCHOOL:

BADDECK HIGH……………………………………GOLD
OXFORD HIGH……………………………………..SILVER
CABOT HIGH………………………………………..BRONZE

TARTAN DIVISION HIGH SCHOOL:

SPRINGHILL HIGH SCHOOL…………………..GOLD

FIRST NATIONS DIVISIONS:

FIDDLER’S DIVISION:

MEMBERTOU ELEMENTARY…………………GOLD
LSK ELEMENTARY…………………………………SILVER
WEKOQMAQ MIKMAQ ELEMENTARY……BRONZE

FIDDLER’S DIVISION JUNIOR HIGH:

WAGMATCOOKEWEY JUNIOR HIGH……………GOLD
LSK JUNIOR HIGH……………………………………….SILVER

FIDDLER’S DIVISION HIGH SCHOOL:

WAGMATCOOKEWEY HIGH……………………..GOLD

PAST CHAMPIONS DIVISION:

FIDDLER’S DIVISION:

SHIPYARD ELEMENTARY……………………………GOLD
EAST BAY ELEMENTARY…………………………….SILVER

TARTAN DIVISION:

A.G. BAILLIE ELEMENTARY………………………….GOLD

FIDDLER’S DIVISION JUNIOR HIGH:

MALCOM MUNROE JUNIOR HIGH……………..GOLD
T.L. SULLIVAN JUNIOR HIGH………………………SILVER

OMBUDSMAN’S DIVISION:

COMHLA CRUINN…………………………………………………..GOLD
KING’S REGIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER…………..SILVER

FRENCH DIVISION:

ECOLE SAINT-ALBERT…………………………GOLD
ECOLE JEAN-MARIE GAY…………………….SILVER
ECOLE STELLA-MARIS…………………………BRONZE

A NUMBER OF SCHOOLS DESERVE AN HONORARY MENTION FROM THE RPOGRAM ORGANIZERS FOR WORKING SO HARD DURING THE PROGRAM AND THEY ARE:

• SALT SPRINGS ELEMENTARY
• MEADOWFIELD ELEMENTARY
• NEW GLASGOW JUNIOR HIGH
• E.B. CHANDLER JUNIOR HIGH
• MIKMEWEY ELEMENTARY
• ECOLE DE WEDGEPORT
• ECOLE BELLEVILLE

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WOW! Reading Challenge begins for Elementary Schools November 2^nd and Junior High, High Schools, and other groups on November 30^th!

(Tuesday, October 20, 2015) - The WOW! Reading Challenge began in Pictou County nine years ago, and has grown to international acclaim for all ages. The Elementary School division competitions begin Monday November 2nd (with over 50 elementary schools currently registered). The Junior High, High School, Special Needs and the Adult Divisions are all set to begin their journey towards the title of ‘Best Readers in the World’ on Monday November 30th, 2015. All competitions will close on April 1st, 2016. This reading competition is open to schools world-wide, and it is free.

To learn more, go to www.fightingcrime.ca. Anyone who wants to register can contact Karen MacNeill (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Const. John Kennedy, Provincial Coordinator of the Adopt-a-Library Literacy Program, (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). The Reading Challenge is hosted by the Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library through a partnership with the RCMP, local policing agencies, schools, school boards and community sponsors.

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