Plant City Observer

Book giveaway for kids to come

(From left to right) Plant City Police Department’s DeeDee Gregory and Capt. Al Van Duyne join Sharon Moody of the Plant City Kiwanis Club and Chief James Bradford of the Plant City Police Department. The Kiwanis Club and the local police department collected hundreds of books for kids that they will begin handing out at Bruton Memorial Library, beginning on Sept. 6.

The Kiwanis ‘N Cops N’ Kids giveaway will have plenty of books for children to read during the year.

It will occur every first Tuesday of the month, at Bruton Memorial Library, 302 McLendon St. in Plant City, it will start on Sept. 6 at 3 p.m.

Kids can read along with police officers and Kiwanis members before taking a book home – one for each kid. 

The children will also have an opportunity to meet police dogs.

The Plant City Kiwanis Club collaborated with the Plant City Police Department, the City of Plant City, and Kiwanis Literacy Clubs of California in collecting various books.

Kiwanis Literacy Clubs donated 100 brand new books and the police department collected almost 500 books during the summer.

It was led by Officer DeeDee Gregory from the police department and Paul Shaver from Bruton Memorial Library.

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