Provincial government promotes National Family Literacy Day
National Family Literacy Day, Jan. 27, is an opportunity for families and communities to extol the benefits of reading and to promote literacy. Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Marie-Claude Blais took advantage of National Family Literacy Day to participate in the launch of an awareness-raising campaign for the provincial organization Elementary Literacy/Littératie au primaire at École Marée Montante in Saint-Louis-de-Kent. From left: Lisa Poirier-Johnson, Nancy Vautour, Stephanie Landry and Paula Jones, volunteers with CLEF (Communauté-Littératie-Enfants francophones); Blais; Saint-Louis-de-Kent Mayor Danielle Dugas; Patrick LaCroix, executive-director, Littératie au primaire; Aldéo Richard, school principal; and Rogersville-Kouchibouguac MLA Bertrand LeBlanc.