Foundation Helps Dispense Wordy Rewards
SPRING HILL, KANSAS – The W.R. & Floy A. Sauey Foundation donated a book vending machine earlier this month to Dayton Creek Elementary School in Spring Hill. The Foundation is the charitable arm of Nordic Group of Companies and gives support to communities where its companies are located. This includes Seats, Incorporated, in Spring Hill, a builder of seats for commercial lawn and turf equipment with 200 associates living in the community.
Students are able to choose a book from the machine to keep as a gift during their birthday month (or a designated month for summer birthdays), according to the school’s media specialist, Brianna Dalton. Students also receive incentives and are rewarded tokens used to receive a vended book of their choice from the machine. The school’s goal regarding the program is to promote literacy, encourage reading, and give students the opportunity to add to their home libraries.
Seats plant manager, Tim Stevens, was present for the school’s unveiling ceremony in front of a group of eager young readers, and to represent the foundation’s ongoing efforts to support education and promote free-market enterprise. “We are very excited today to be able to present this book vending machine,” said Stevens, “and we look forward to supporting the Spring Hill School District for years to come.”
The W.R. & Floy A. Sauey Foundation’s contribution is one part of a community effort, including overall project coordination by the Spring Hill Education Foundation and funding to stock the machine with books by the Dayton Creek Parent/Teacher Organization (PTO). Thanks was expressed during the ceremony by Dalton for these contributors, as well as the general involvement of students, their families, and the surrounding community.
