[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12575]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            SANTA ANA KIWANIS CLUB CONTRIBUTION TO LITERACY

  (Ms. SANCHEZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SANCHEZ. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to honor the Santa Ana Kiwanis 
Club for its efforts to curb illiteracy in my district. The Kiwanis 
Club has donated $5,000 to the Orange County Board of Education to 
finance the printing of 20,000 bilingual booklets that encourage 
parents to read to their children. The aim of the booklets is to 
increase the listening and the verbal vocabularies of children, both of 
which help to improve reading abilities.
  I am thankful that my parents took the time to read with me while I 
was growing up. Their dedication to my education helped me to improve 
my reading ability and to get good grades in school. My parents knew 
that success in the classroom and in life depended on a grasp of basic 
life skills like reading, and I commend the Kiwanis Club of Santa Ana 
for their efforts to improve literacy among the children of Santa Ana.

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