Cedar Mountain celebrates reading week

VERNON — In celebration of “Read Across America Week,” Cedar Mountain Primary School invited several familiar faces of the Vernon Township community into the classroom for a special storytime.

Counted amongst the school’s guest readers were Mayor Vic Marotta, Police Chief Randy Mills, School Principal Pauline Anderson of Glen Meadow Middle School, Principal Rosemary Gebhardt of Walnut Ridge Primary School and Sheriff Michael Strada.

Several former faculty members of the elementary school also were welcomed back for a special reading, skillfully engaging the young listeners with their seasoned storytelling abilities.

The students sat, quietly and attentively, as the guest readers carried them away to faraway lands and introduced them to lively and colorful characters. Together, they shared their love for reading, along with their appreciation of community. As stories of various genres, settings and plots were read aloud within each of the school’s classrooms, there remained one moral of the day’s story: Reading Brings People Together.