Kids Ferst seeing decline in new registrations, fundraising

By Michael Andrews - Mountain Life Editor on Tuesday, September 8, 2020

‘We have not stopped mailing books,’ says group’s president

  • Kids Ferst volunteers gather for a 2019 group photo. From left, front: Carolyn Thompson, Stan Ashworth, Rena Ashworth, Dottie Piehler, Joan Blomquist, Lynne Becker and Eileen Bailey; center: Galen Forbes, Judy Serritella, Susan Marler, Jacqueline Poole, Kathy Stephens, Judy Harvey, Eileen Below, Ben Bailey and Ann Buehler; back: George McClellan and Emil Harvey.
    Kids Ferst volunteers gather for a 2019 group photo. From left, front: Carolyn Thompson, Stan Ashworth, Rena Ashworth, Dottie Piehler, Joan Blomquist, Lynne Becker and Eileen Bailey; center: Galen Forbes, Judy Serritella, Susan Marler, Jacqueline Poole, Kathy Stephens, Judy Harvey, Eileen Below, Ben Bailey and Ann Buehler; back: George McClellan and Emil Harvey.
    Kids Ferst, a nonprofit childhood literacy group that’s the Gilmer County affiliate of the statewide Ferst Readers program, is still functioning and providing books to local children.  ...

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