Starting at 6:15 p.m., a Blue Claws player will lead young fans in the recitation of Casey At the Bat written by Yogi Berra. Fans will be able to follow along with the words and video on the stadium scoreboard. Fans are invited to bring along a new or gently used book to donate for a book collection taking place that day.

Cynthia Sambol of Brick Township is serving as coordinator of this Share A Story event, with her daughter Drew as youth coordinator. Drew has recruited teen volunteers to transform old bins into attractive receptacles for book donations at the stadium during the Share A Story event that day. She and fellow volunteers will join NJN staff at a table to recruit reading volunteers for area school children.

A junior at Point Pleasant High School, Drew has taken on this literacy project as a community service project for the year. Throughout the year, she will collect books and distribute them to children in day care centers and shelters in the Ocean/Monmouth counties areas. Plans also call for book donation bins to be located at all 20 library branches of the Ocean County Library.

Share A Story is a national public service campaign to help children learn to read. Governor James E. McGreevey and Mrs. Dina McGreevey serve as Honorary State Campaign Chairs of NJN's Share A Story initiative, which builds on NJN's ongoing family literacy programs and services to make a difference in the lives of New Jersey's children.
"NJN is reaching people throughout the state through our on-air programming, our online
resources, and our grassroots network of community partners such as libraries, schools, childcare providers, Head Start centers, and literacy groups to encourage adults and older children to read to young children in order to promote early literacy development," explained NJN Executive Director Elizabeth Christopherson.
For more information about NJN's Share A Story campaign, call NJN at 609-777-5101 or visit NJN's Web site, www.njn.net.