Gov. DeWine declares Aug. 9 ‘Dolly Parton Day’ in Ohio

OHIO — Gov. Mike DeWine declared Aug. 9 “Dolly Parton Day” in honor of the nation music star and a literacy initiative that has branched all through the Buckeye State. 

Parton will make a cease in Columbus on Tuesday to have a good time the expansion of Dolly Parton’s Creativeness Library. This system goals to encourage kids to learn extra and enhance literacy all through the state. 

It supplies one free e-book each month to kids enrolled from beginning to 5-years-old.

Parton will participate in a personal luncheon on the Ohio State College campus with first girl Fran DeWine. The occasion will even be livestreamed.

This system initially began out because the Ohio Governor’s Creativeness Library in 2019 and had solely been launched in a handful of counties. By November 2020, it grew to become out there in each county. In July 2022, it transitioned to Dolly Parton’s Creativeness Library of Ohio and up to date its brand. The transition “offered further consistency, readability and model recognition permitting the nonprofit and associates to proceed selling this system and rising enrollment,” based on its web site.

Greater than 30,000 kids are enrolled in this system, based on the web site.