Winning formula: Read Books, Win Bike
                  Annual Program Encourages Literacy


These two young readers, Naselle, fourth-grader Drex Barendse,

and second-grader Alis Campbell, are smiling because they earned

a free bicycle in the Bikes for Books program organized by

Occident Lodge No. 48, Free and Accepted Masons of Ilwaco, in

conjunction with Pacific County school librarians and teachers.

Pictured behind them are Masons Dick Rodlun, left, and Bob

Morris with Naselle school librarian Cynthia Clark. Students read

books during May, and when they pass a quick test afterward, their

names are placed in a box for a random drawing at the end of the

​school year; the more books they read, the more chances they have of winning. The boy and girl winners from each participating school each wins a new bicycle and helmet, courtesy of the Masons. 

 

 

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Audreigh Waters, (left), and Conner Lyons-Johnson, (right) were the Masons Bikes for Books winners at Raymond Elementary School.

Two other students earned bikes donated by the principal, Steven Nygreen. They were Evalyn Bundy and Jackson Garcia.

Ocean Park Elementary Bikes for Books winners were third-graders Ally Campbell, left, and Layne Smith, pictured with Dick Rodlun from the Masons.

The winners at Hilltop School in Ilwaco, pictured with Mason member Dick Rodlun, were sixth-grader Piper Johnson, left, and eighth-grader Sisto Arena.

Fifth-graders Cambrie Kempton, left, and A.J. Hodel are pictured with Lori Snodgrass, principal at Willapa Elementary School, after their names were drawn as winners in the Bikes for Books program.

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Ilwaco Masonic Lodge No. 48 F&A.M.

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Lodge member Mike Turner, left, is pictured with South Bend Elementary School’s Bikes for Books winners Bryan Buick Tapia and Alyssa Martin.