HANC reads

Third Graders at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School, in West Hempstead, participated in the D.E.A.R program last week while visiting the HANC Library. The D.E.A.R (Drop Everything and Read) program, popularized by Beverly Cleary in her novel “Ramona Quimby, Age 8,” celebrates reading and encourages students to make reading a part of their regular routine. Students relaxed and read when Mrs. Shuster, the HANC Librarian, announced that it was D.E.A.R time.