The Literacy Council celebrated the start of its 56th year by hosting a special reception to thank friends and community representatives for their support of the organization’s adult literacy programs. Board of Directors Vice President Richard Haney announced the new initiative: In honor of three remarkable women, Dolly Engle and Kay Mackley, who founded the...
September 25, 2018 Literacy Council launches its first literary magazine – Reflections – Voices of English Learners Curious Iguana Bookstore hosted the Literacy Council’s launch of its first literary magazine, Reflections – Voices of English Learners. The magazine is a compilation of stories, poems, and art written by Literacy Council students with their new English...
Those of us at the Literacy Council who knew her are saddened by the passing of Elizabeth Derr on July 14, 2018. Elizabeth volunteered for the Literacy Council continuously since she began as an office staffer in 1988 until reluctantly retiring, at the age of 88, in 2016. She became a tutor in 1989 and...
The Literacy Council is honored to be one of seven charitable organizations approved for grant funding over the next three years through the United Way of Frederick County. The Community Impact Partner grant recipients were chosen based on how the programs fit with United Way’s funding priority areas of health, education and financial stability for...
Long-time Literacy Council volunteer and all-around remarkable woman Joyce Routzahn died on June 13, 2018, at the age of 88. Joyce began volunteering with the Literacy Council in 1976, after becoming certified as a tutor. She was an elementary school teacher who tutored many children as well as our Literacy Council adult students – she...
The Literacy Council recently received a Significant Partner Grant from the Rotary Club of Frederick to build our capacity for a sustainable program in collaboration with the business community. The purpose of the Literacy Council’s workplace program is to empower lower literate employees to find and keep sustainable employment, thereby lifting themselves out of poverty,...
Join us at Dutch’s Daughter on Saturday, March 10, 2-5pm, for an afternoon of team Scrabble®! You don’t have to be an expert player to have lots of fun. You needn’t have ever played a game of Scrabble® before! Teams of four compete against other teams. (You can sign up as part of a team,...
