Family Literacy Day
January 27, 2010

WHEREAS solid literacy skills are vital to our social and economic development as a city;

AND WHEREAS research shows that parents have a strong influence on the literacy development of their children;

AND WHEREAS family literacy programs serve to secure a solid learning foundation for our children;

AND WHEREAS family learning helps maintain the literacy levels of adults and encourages the development of lifelong readers and learners;

NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor Harvey Rosen, do HEREBY PROCLAIM January 27 as "Family Literacy Day" in the City of Kingston.

Dated at Kingston this 2nd day of December, 2009
Harvey Rosen, Mayor