{"id":4533,"date":"2015-03-30T17:56:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T00:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.manymansions.org\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2017-05-08T18:17:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T01:17:34","slug":"ventura-county-star-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manymansions.org\/2015\/03\/ventura-county-star-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Ventura County Star (March 2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manymansions.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/bookdonation2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1275\" src=\"https:\/\/www.manymansions.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/bookdonation2-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Macy's Book Donation\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 Macy&#8217;s donates books to<br \/>\nMany Mansions kids<\/h2>\n<p class=\"small\" style=\"text-align: center;\">In collaboration with the Camarillo Amber&#8217;s Light Lions Club, Macy&#8217;s donated over 1,000 books to Many Mansions! Current subscribers can <a title=\"Macy's donates books to Many Mansions\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vcstar.com\/news\/local-news\/conejo-valley\/macys-donates-books-to-many-mansions-kids_73794128\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">view the article<\/a> and pictures online through the VC Star website.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. &#8211; Diego Sanchez\u2019s face lit up as Del Hernandez, store manager of Macy\u2019s Thousand Oaks, asked him if he liked to read.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The question came Tuesday at the Many Mansions Shadow Hills homework club. Macy\u2019s provided 1,035 books through the Reading is Fundamental campaign.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The youngsters, ranging in age from 5 to 11, were allowed to choose a book to take home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Diego, 8, picked a \u201cStar Wars\u201d book.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI love Star Wars,\u201d he said. \u201cI like the Jedi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hernandez was delighted. He said every Macy\u2019s was allowed to choose a local organization that would benefit from the program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSeeing those smiles is what it\u2019s all about,\u201d Hernandez said. \u201cThis is awesome to see right here, down the street from our store, how we are impacting children right here in Thousand Oaks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->Chris Graham, secretary of the Camarillo Amber\u2019s Light Lions Club, said the organization was thrilled to link Macy\u2019s with Many Mansions, which provides affordable housing to low-income families.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt\u2019s wonderful to help kids have books of their own,\u201d Graham said. \u201cAnytime you can help a child learn to read, the better they will be in this society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rebecca Evans, vice president of services and resources for Many Mansions, concurred.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manymansions.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/bookdonation1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1274\" src=\"https:\/\/www.manymansions.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/bookdonation1-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Macy's Book Giveaway\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a>\u201cThese books are going to be used in our homework and tutoring club, and they will get to take one home with them,\u201d Evans said. \u201cWe also were able to get copies of topical books, such as books about space and the rain forest, so this summer during our Many Mansions summer camp experience, youth will learn about a topic for a week and at the end of the week, be able to take a book to keep and read again and again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many Mansions\u2019 Heather McLeod, community outreach and public relations coordinator, and Coreen Ellrott, associate director of children services, said they had a blast handpicking every book.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt was so much fun reminiscing about the books we read as kids and the books my kids read,\u201d McLeod said. \u201cWe remembered so many great titles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Curious George was one of the characters that crossed generations, and it was a book featuring him that Valeria Casanova, 6, chose, adding that she doesn\u2019t know how to read.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMy brothers will have to read it to me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her 9-year-old brother, Israel, promised he would. He selected a \u201cStar Wars\u201d book for himself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI don\u2019t like Curious George much, but I\u2019ll read to her and help her learn how to read,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The eldest brother, Jesus, 10, picked a \u201cStar Wars\u201d book, as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI\u2019ll help my sister, too,\u201d Jesus said. \u201cI think what they\u2019re doing today is great. It\u2019s nice to meet the people from Macy\u2019s who are giving us the books, and it\u2019s great that they\u2019re letting us have one to take home. That makes me happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At age 5, Jada Riley already knows how to read. She chose the book, \u201cFancy Nancy and the Delectable Cupcakes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI read this book at school, so I wanted to have it at home,\u201d Jada said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Evans watched the children and smiled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cToday means the world to us,\u201d Evans said. \u201cWe are so appreciative for the partnership with Macy\u2019s, as well as the Lions Club of Camarillo. These books are going to go a long way in educating our youth and in helping them achieve greater academic attainment and break the cycle of poverty.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Macy&#8217;s donates books to Many Mansions kids In collaboration with the Camarillo Amber&#8217;s Light Lions Club, Macy&#8217;s donated over 1,000 books to Many Mansions! Current subscribers can view the article and pictures online through the VC Star website. 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