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Bookworms invade Summit: About 83,000 readers counted so far; participants' pledge forms, calls still coming in.

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| February 09, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2007 Akron Beacon Journal. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Mary Kay Quinn

Feb. 9--At bookstores, libraries, schools, companies and homes, young and old snuggled up with a book for a half hour Wednesday as part of This City Reads' Annual Day of Reading. With pledge forms and phone calls still expected to come in over the next few days, the organizers hadn't reached their goal of 100,000 readers. By 4:30 p.m. Wednesday the total was 82,887, said Jennifer Kramer of Project: LEARN of Summit County. The designated reading time was 10:30 a.m., but even those who started reading at 11:29 p.m. -- as long as they finished by 11:59 -- would be counted, Kramer said. In the morning, Mother Goose, played by a costumed and toy-goose-carrying Jean Grubbs, led Portage Path Elementary first-graders to the festivities at Fowler…

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