HOPE – Clinton Primary School students will have access to free books this summer as the result of a donation of children’s books to the early literacy program at Clinton Primary School.\r\n
\r\nThe Lillie Mae Smith Resource Room Women’s Ministry of Rising Star Baptist Church in Hope made the donation of 900 books on May 1, according to Mary White, who was in charge of the donation.\r\n
\r\n“The Resource Room is located at the Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church,” White, who is director of the University of Arkansas-Hope TRiO program, said.\r\n
\r\nThe church campus is located at 1002 E. Beech St., and the Smith Resource Room is open to the public, she said.\r\n
\r\n“The Women’s Ministry goal is for each Clinton Primary student to receive a new book to take home to read during the summer,” White said. “We invite the parents to visit the Resource Room during the summer to select additional books.”\r\n
\r\nBooks are provided through a program of donations to the ministry at Rising Star Baptist, part of which is underwritten by Dr. Roscoe Smith, of Dallas, a native and alumnus of Hope. The program has previously provided book donations to the library at Yerger Middle School. \r\n
