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Uploaded: Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 11:51 AM
Summer reading pays off
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by Ashley Finden
Mountain View Voice Staff
Third-grade Mountain View resident Ethan Xie won a $529 check towards his college education from ScholarShare, California's 529 College Savings Plan.
Xie was awarded the money as a part of Think Big! Save for College! Summer Reading promotion.
ScholarShare gave a total of $20,000 to 40 children in California during the first week of October. The program partnered with California public libraries to organize an annual summer reading program, with children from preschool through 8th grade participating.
The winners were selected at random and there were over 3,600 entries by the end of the summer. Besides donating the money towards college education, ScholarShare is matching the winning amount and donating it to the Mountain View Public Library for reading programs.Are you receiving Express, our free daily e-mail edition? See a sample and sign-up for Express.
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Posted by Reader, a resident of the Blossom Valley neighborhood, on Oct 16, 2012 at 1:02 pm Did he actually read anything? Or is that not worth reporting or relevant to the story?
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Posted by @ reader, a resident of the Cuesta Park neighborhood, on Oct 16, 2012 at 3:38 pm Really? You just like to see your words in print?
Did you want a list of all the books that Xie read? Obviously, he was part of the summer reading program, which it said in the article.
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Posted by @@reader, a resident of the Cuesta Park neighborhood, on Oct 16, 2012 at 7:54 pm When "winners are selected at random" I think its a fair question to ask why the reporter mentions nothing about what was read.
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Posted by Reader2, a resident of the North Whisman neighborhood, on Oct 17, 2012 at 7:55 am For the sake of promoting reading, a list of a few books he read would have added a lot to this joke of and article.
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