Mark Moshea, Chris Bratcher, Ernest Burgess
and Ronnie Erwin display four of the winning
2008 UNPLUG and Read! posters.

2nd Annual
UNPLUG and Read!
February 28, 2008

UNPLUG and Read! is a community wide initiative encouraging adults, families, and children to unplug from televisions, computers, and video games and enjoy the pleasures and educational enrichments of reading.

Thanks to Middle Tennessee Electric Customer Cares and Hasting's Bookstore for thes generous donations to this year's UNPLUG and Read!

Events for February 28th:

• Poster contest awards presentation
  Hastings Bookstore
  1660 Memorial Blvd.
  4:30 p.m.
  
  
• Family Reading Night
  Murfreesboro Boys and Girls Club
  820 Jones Blvd.
  5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
  
  This event will include dinner (served between 5:00 and 7:00), special readers, places for parents and children to read together, arts and crafts where children will make bookmarks and book covers, and door prizes and drawings.
  
  
• Barnes & Noble Bookstore
  2615 Medical Center Pkwy.
  
  Please join them for light live music and free cookies. Strategy games will be available for families to play. Of course, there will be PLENTY of books available!
  
  

Thank you to everyone who entered a poster for the contest. Over 100 posters were created and entered.

Special thanks to Hastings Bookstore for sponsoring the poster contest for the second year.

Congratulations to the following winners:

• Mayor's Award:
  Carringten Rowell
  Rock Springs Elementary
  
  
• Preschool Division:
  Alex Vitantonio
  Glorious Wonders LLC Childcare Center
  
  
• Grades K-5:
  Winner - Carringten Rowell
  Rock Springs Elementary
  
  Runner-up - Alex Thurmond
  St. Rose Catholic School
  
  
• English as a Second Language:
  Winner - Seong Ho Hong
  Stewartsboro Elementary School
  
  Runner-up - Jessica Rodriguez
  Stewartsboro Elementary School
  
  
• Grades 6-8:
  Winner - Ashleigh Lozler
  Christiana Middle School
  
  Runner-up - Caityln Carver
  Blackman Middle School
  
  
• Grades 9-12:
  Winner - Amber Lancaster
  Siegel High School
  
  Runner-up - Diane Ellmore
  Smyrna High School
  
  
• Best Poster by a Daycare:
  Glorious Wonders LLC Childcare Center
  
  

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