Coweta Ferst Foundation’s 2019 Lewis Grizzard & Catfish Bike Ride

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Please consider joining Marie and me for the 2019 Lewis Grizzard & Catfish Bike Ride in Moreland, Georgia.  This event will take place on October 6, 2019 at 8:00am.  There are 12 mile, 25 mile and 66 mile options to choose from. You can register in advance at: Lewis Grizzard & Catfish Bike Ride.

The Coweta Ferst Foundation is dedicated to providing age-appropriate books for every child under the age of five in Coweta County.  This mission is important because:

  1. Sixty-one percent of low-income families do not have a single piece of age-appropriate reading material in their home;
  2. One-third of Georgia’s children start school unprepared to learn; and,
  3. Seventy-five percent of Georgia’s students who are poor readers in the third grade will remain poor readers in high school.

The more words a child hears, the larger the child’s vocabulary and the larger the child’s vocabulary, the more likely the child will be a proficient reader.  However, in order to read with a child, books must be in the home.

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