Jacksonville trainer leads effort to enhance youth literacy


Ron Chamblin talks with Dorothy Gillette after loading donated books into Gillette’s truck Thursday morning. After selecting up 12 packing containers of youngsters’s and younger grownup books from Ron Chamblin at his Forest Avenue warehouse Thursday, July 11, 2024, Dorothy Gillette with the assistance of Ferrantino Carter, the 2 distributed books to summer season program places that labored with kids round Jacksonville.
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Jacksonville trainer and literacy crusader Dorothy Gillette talks with Ron Chamblin outdoors his bookstore warehouse the place he donated 12 containers of books to Gillette on Thursday.
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Dorothy Gillette drives her truck to the primary drop-off location for the donated kids’s books after selecting them up Thursday morning.
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Ferrantino Carter helps Dorothy Gillette offload a number of containers of youngsters’s books from her truck to ship to the kids’s schooling room at The Salvation Military’s Northeast Florida Towers Heart of Hope.
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Dorothy Gillette checks in on the entrance desk window as she drops off a load of books on the Salvation Military’s Northeast Florida Towers Heart Of Hope.
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Dorothy Gillette, heart, and Ferrantino Carter ship containers of books to Shelia Wright, household and schooling liaison at The Salvation Military’s Northeast Florida Towers Heart of Hope.
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Shelia Wright, the household and schooling liaison on the Salvation Military’s Northeast Florida Towers Heart Of Hope with one of many containers of youngsters’s books delivered by Dorothy Gillette.
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Dorothy Gillette and Debra Cotton seems on the donated books delivered by Gillette for Cotton’s “The Hub”, on Kings Street the place she has instructional applications for kids within the neighborhood.
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Duval County trainer and literacy crusader Dorothy Gillette, left, delivers donated books for Debra Cotton’s “The Hub” on Kings Street the place she has instructional applications for kids within the neighborhood.
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Ferrantino Carter will get a hug from Debra Cotton after Ferrantino helped ship kids’s books to Cotton’s “The Hub” on Kings Street the place she presents instructional applications to neighborhood kids.
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Ferrantino Carter offloads books for the kids’s applications at Ertha’s Farm and Market Thursday morning.
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Janice Harper, an worker at Ertha’s Farm and Market, welcomes Dorothy Gillette and Ferrantino Carter as they arrive with containers of books for the applications on the Myrtle Avenue facility.
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Ferrantino Carter and Dorothy Gillette ship a load of donated kids’s books to “Minds of the Future Academy” on Most important Avenue as they made stops round a variety of amenities with summer season kids’s applications Thursday morning.
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Dorothy Gillette talks with Keyana “Ms. Ok” Smith after delivering a load of donated kids’s books to the “Minds of the Future Academy” on Most important Avenue as Gillette made stops round a variety of amenities with summer season kids’s applications Thursday morning.
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Dorothy Gillette, again, relishes watching some women at Minds of the Future Academy on Most important Avenue in Jacksonville get first decide of a brand new load of donated books she dropped off Thursday morning.
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A participant in summer season applications at “Minds of the Future Academy” on Most important Avenue holds her choices after a brand new load of donated books have been dropped off there by Dorothy Gillette Thursday morning.
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