“Will you read to me?” the small girl with large dark eyes asked politely.Five-year-old Tunna Gay was standing among other excited kindergartners at Martin Luther King Elementary School's new library. Eyeing the woman who had just entered the library, Tunna approached, holding out the book she had chosen.
Soon other students crowded in to hear the stranger read a story on a bright morning at the Muskegon Heights school.
Around them other women were reading to clusters of children — women who volunteered their time to reopen the school's library that had fallen victim to budget cuts.
Muskegon Heights school officials, faced with deficit spending, were forced to close all the school libraries last year. There was no money to pay librarians, so books were boxed up, library rooms put to other use, and schoolchildren were left without that mainstay of learning.
www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2011/12/closed_muskegon_heights_school.html
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