Read 815 Selfie Challenge begins in Boone and Winnebago Counties

ANNE EICKSTADT PHOTO Belvidere Daily Republican
Mayor Mike, Officer Tim, and kids at the General Mills Playground share quality reading time for the Read 815 Challenge.

“Readers become leaders,” said Mayor Mike Chamberlain, one of the founding partners of the Read 815 Challenge. “Reading is the path to a successful future. Reading is for both adults and children. Read with your kids. Read to your kids. Read for yourself.”

Reading is a wonderful way to discover facts for yourself. Opinions expressed on television, the radio, or in textbooks may not be actual fact. But you will not know for sure unless you check it out and find out what really happened.

Read 815 is a challenge to every person in our community to read a book a week between now and the start of the school year. It is also a challenge to every adult in our community to encourage a child or group of children to take the Read 815 Challenge, and to read with and alongside them as needed.

Everyone can participate. Everyone can help.

Post your weekly reading selfie on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Use the hashtags #Read815 #BookAWeek #ReadingSelfie. Tag your friends and family with a challenge to read a book a week as well.

Follow Read 815 on Instagram for best-in-category reading selfie contests, prize announcements, celebrity appearances, and more. To qualify…

For complete article, pick up the July 25 BDR.