By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism.
First lady praises literacy garden at Hall school office as model for Georgia
0504LITERACY 0008
Kathy Lovett welcomes guests Wednesday during the dedication ceremony for the literacy garden at Gardens on Green in Gainesville. It is the seventh garden at Gardens on Green, located outside of the Hall County School District office. - photo by Erin O. Smith
Instead of a speech, Georgia first lady Sandra Deal used her time during during Wednesday’s dedication of the new literacy garden next to the Hall County School District Office to read a book to a class of kindergarten students from Martin Technology Academy of Math and Science. The book she read was “The Strange Journey of Byron and Cyrus,” by Sandy Meyer. Deal told the kids the book was about friendship and an “imaginative story from a garden.”