Skip to Content Skip to Main Menu Skip to Global Menu
Colclough Lake Colclough Lake
Home Citizen Services Residents Businesses Visitors Emergency Services County Offices
You are here: Home > County Offices > Communications Office > Details
divider

Communications Office - Media Releases

CONTACT: Mark Sexton, Communications Coordinator
PHONE: (352) 374-5204; CELL: (352) 283-2317
EMAIL: msexton@alachuacounty.us

For Immediate Release



Children's Book Drive Results

9/11/2009 12:00 AM

ALACHUA COUNTY, FL - As part of President Obama's "United We Serve" summer initiative, the Alachua County Division of Senior Services (Foster Grandparent Program and Retired and Senior Volunteer Program) participated with the United Way of North Central Florida in a children's book drive to benefit participants in the Success by Six initiative. From July 25 through August 8, 2009, books were collected at Books-a-Million, North Florida Regional Medical Center, Alachua County Communications Office, Visitor's Center, Equal Opportunity Division, and Exactech, Inc. The 533 books and eight book storage crates collected through this effort will be used to create home libraries for children ages birth to six as well as distributed to selected child care centers in Gainesville�s 32609 zip code area.

For more information, contact Alachua County Foster Grandparent Program Coordinator Norma Berger 352-264-6757 nberger@alachuacounty.us.

If you have a disability and need an accommodation in order to participate in a County program, service or public meeting, please contact the Alachua County Equal Opportunity Office at (352)374-5275 at least 3 business days prior to the event. TTY users please call 711 (Florida Relay Service).

-30-

This website is a public service. Please read the Legal Disclaimer. Website designed and engineered by Alachua County ITS.Applications Division Version 2010 (v1.0)

Under Florida law (Statute 119.011), all information, including e-mail, written letters, documents and phone messages, sent to the Alachua County Board of County Commissioners is subject to Public Records law. This includes the sender's e-mail address, home address or phone number if shown in the message, the content of the message and any associated attachments to the mail. Also please be aware that electronic correspondence (e-mail) is made available on the Commission's public archive site immediately upon being sent. Instead, contact Alachua County Offices by phone or in writing.