Governor visits Mud Hens, promotes early literacy

On August 28, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and First Lady Fran DeWine visited a Toledo Mud Hens baseball game to promote enrollment in Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Ohio. The DeWines, shown here with mascot Muddonna, joined the Imagination Library’s county affiliate, Toledo Lucas County Public Library, at a table near the home gate entrance, and participated in an Imagination Library parade on the field prior to the game. Last month, Lucas County had 12,778 children enrolled in the program, which means 43 percent of eligible youngsters are receiving free books. Statewide, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Ohio currently has enrolled 343,490 young people, or 48 percent of those eligible in Ohio. The program mails children one high quality, age-appropriate book each month until their fifth birthday. All Ohio children are eligible to be enrolled in the program at no cost to their family.

On August 28, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and First Lady Fran DeWine visited a Toledo Mud Hens baseball game to promote enrollment in Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Ohio.

The DeWines, shown here with mascot Muddonna, joined the Imagination Library’s county affiliate, Toledo Lucas County Public Library, at a table near the home gate entrance, and participated in an Imagination Library parade on the field prior to the game.

Last month, Lucas County had 12,778 children enrolled in the program, which means 43 percent of eligible youngsters are receiving free books.

Statewide, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Ohio currently has enrolled 343,490 young people, or 48 percent of those eligible in Ohio.

The program mails children one high quality, age-appropriate book each month until their fifth birthday. All Ohio children are eligible to be enrolled in the program at no cost to their family.