One Book/One Community, L-A Reads!
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
One Book/One Community, L-A Reads! community partners launch its community-wide reading program with Nickel & Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Enrenreich’s. This year’s title is a 2001 nonfiction bestseller and Notable Book of the Year, which combines passion and wit to provide insight into the often invisible workforce that fuels our service economy.
As part of this year’s activity, One Book/One Community, L-A Reads! will feature Struggling to Get By in Lewiston-Auburn discussion program on April 12 at 7 p.m. at Lewiston-Auburn College. Rex Rhoades, Executive Editor of the Sun Journal, will moderate this discussion by L-A community leaders: Linda M. Hertell, President, Richardson Hollow Mental Health; Mary Kozicki LaFontaine, Manager, Lewiston CareerCenter; Barbara Rankins, Neighborhood Coordinator, Empower Lewiston; Nancy Reynolds, Team Leader, Advocates for Children; Mark Schlotterbeck, City Missionary, Calvary United Methodist Church. These panelists will discuss many of the challenges that individuals and families in L-A face as they try to get by working at a low wage job or jobs.
Nickel and Dimed is available for loan at the Lewiston and Auburn Public Libraries and may be reserved by calling either library. Copies are available for purchase at a 20% discount at the Book Burrow, Mr. Paperback and WaldenBooks.
One Book/One Community is a partnership of the Lewiston and Auburn Public Libraries, and Lewiston Adult Education, Auburn Adult Education, the Sun Journal, WCNN Radio 1240 AM, Book Burrow & Café, Mr. Paperback, WaldenBooks and University of Southern Maine/Lewiston-Auburn,. For more information call the Auburn Public Library at 782-3191 or the Lewiston Public Library at 784-0135.
