Sen. Collins to visit Hampden school, celebrate Read Across America Day

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Susan Collins will follow up her introduction and passage of a Senate resolution marking Monday, March 3, as Read Across America Day with a visit to a Hampden elementary school where she will read to young pupils. On Feb. 27, the Senate unanimously passed the Collins resolution designating Monday as Read Across America Day. Each year, for the last six years, the national reading celebration has taken place on or about March 2, which is Theodore Geisel’s birthday. Geisel was better known to his reading public as Dr. Seuss.

To join in the celebration, Collins will visit the Earl C. McGraw Elementary School, 20 Main Road North, in Hampden at 9:30 a.m. Monday. The event is being sponsored by Phi Theta Kappa Beta Beta Omicron and the National Honor Society of Eastern Maine Technical College, in conjunction with the McGraw school.

Collins will read “The Sea Chest” to a second-grade class, then spend time with all the pupils at a schoolwide assembly.