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By Neil Doyle
BLOOMINGTON – A local organization is donating 58,301 books to several school districts and non-profit groups.
Toys for Tots of McLean County teamed up with its national office who worked with Scholastic to provide the donation.
Toys for Tots of McLean County director Troy Zeigler told WJBC some of the books are being donated to Unit 5, District 87, Tri-Valley and Olympia school districts.
“It’s good to put the books into the kids hands and takes some of the stress off of the teachers because they are able to put books into their own classroom libraries,” said Zeigler.
The book donation locally has an estimated value of around $500,000, according to Zeigler.
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“The school school districts have been very thankful and it has been received very well,” he said. “I would like to see the look on the faces of the teachers knowing they can now stock their library and not have to go out and spend their own money.”
Books are also being donated to some local non-profit organizations and the Toys for Tots campaign in Lincoln.
More information about Toys for Tots of McLean County can be found here.
Neil Doyle can be reached at [email protected]