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<div><b>The Bowman Bulletin</b></div>
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<div>We hope the New Year is treating you well. The Thea Bowman House has been very busy so far this year. We held our first fundraiser of the year- Italian Night Pasta Dinner. It was an amazing success and thank you to everyone who supported us! The next week, we began working on our St. Patrick's Day Parade Party Fundraiser, coming up on March 9th! We also were featured in a Community Foundation article and we received over 5,000 books from a Barnes & Noble Book Drive!<br /> <br /></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify"><img height="139" vspace="5" name="ACCOUNT.IMAGE.10" border="0" hspace="10" width="180" src="http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs181/1112107819136/img/10.png" align="right"> Next weekend, March 9th, is our annual St. Patrick's Day Parade Party! It is from 8:30am to 1pm at the DeSales Center, 309 Genesee St. Join us for food and fun all morning and afternoon! There will be Irish items for sale, face & nail painting, raffles, and shamrock shakes! As well as baked goods, pizza, hot dogs, & chili! Also, our special guests: Cynthia O'Hara, Author of "The Harried Housewife's Cookbook" signing her books (which will be for sale at our event) from 12-1pm, AND Butler-Sheehan Academy and Johnston School of Irish Dance! Lastly, Utica College Pioneer Radio 90.7 will be providing tunes and entertainment, broadcasting live from our event! All proceeds will go towards a scholarship fund for children of low-income families so that they may attend our programs. If you are unable to attend, please consider making a donation.<a style="text-align: center; font-size: 10pt; " track="on" shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001QWa--pYtDJSKgoKSeCF71_crl7NrIVL03ptzzuzWZqFtOq6elGaOduWTuU83N-oqkUZGdAEHefbmE9iy8wKhdnjiqSW1oWYRKc0jBfbsUhkaMltRBwn1yPoNvEyQFFxAdjtKxl4Zfz_988asn56pRbFeJLHrQDG5" target="_blank"><img height="41" border="0" width="236" src="https://www.formstack.com/admin/images/embed/embed_button_donate_2.png" /></a></img></div>
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<div style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;" align="center">March is national reading month!</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;" align="center">Five year olds from low-income communities are exposed to only 3,000 words by the time they reach kindergarten, versus their more fortunate peers who enter school with 20,000-word vocabularies. (<a style="color: rgb(140, 136, 19); text-decoration: underline; " track="on" shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001QWa--pYtDJSXKf0zGLy0ho1oHCZXyyS2A5RQA9bErR-qX7-6BCv05rkezFy-NpOqXQQbGHtbnspTwKzGJvcNdejsfiz-MXByEd0bVOWM7Lg4ceuOuxMN73Kf7ATGQP9kRZanc6X226_Nj10laENUcg==" linktype="1" target="_blank">source</a>)</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify">To emphasize the importance of literacy and reading, the Thea Bowman House is launching a "Read to Succeed" series, where members of our community come to read to our Pre-K classes. Lead by example, show kids that reading is fun and help them develop skills that will help them succeed. Our goal is to make reading and learning exciting while making new friends! Our new friend, Sean "SDot" Morelle, from 97.9 Kiss FM, will be one of our first readers! If you are interested in reading to a class contact Alyssa at Alyssa@theabowmanhouse.org.<br /><br /></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify"><span>According to the Leadership Alliance for a Vital Community (<a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; " track="on" shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001QWa--pYtDJQjeBmuKJMOpyP3Ya9PvHWMn30YRLqmbxdM8yXXPdmrPVPOu8Zys99NgXLEttxwbR87ODhllVTltp6xHPTaF6qtEZ5uAjkfwsw=" linktype="1" target="_blank">hocindicators.org</a>), 47% of children in Utica are living in poverty. This is in comparison to 14% for New York State (excluding NYC) and 19% </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">for the entire nation. These numbers are shocking and have serious consequences for our children and our community.</span></div>
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