… families prepare for the upcoming school year.
St. Mark Youth Enrichment gave away books during the event. Some of those books were read to Holmes, a barber at Spark Family Hair Salon.
“This is amazing. It’s fabulous,” said Beth McGorry, outreach coordinator with St. Mark. She said it was neat to watch Holmes help young children sound out words they didn’t quite know yet.
Caitlin Daniels, grade-level reading coordinator with the Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque, also helped struggling readers in the barber chair.
“It’s great. All the kids, they want to have a good haircut to go back to school,” she said. “They’re paying through reading.”
In addition to giving out books, St. Mark also registered people for the Apples for Students program. At least 1,300 children in Dubuque, western Dubuque County and East Dubuque, Ill., will receive backpacks full of school supplies.
In Dubuque, the first full day of classes is Sept. 1.
Barber Accepts Reading As Payment For Haircuts was originally published on blackdoctor.org
