WARSAW — Kosciusko Literacy Services will hold an informational meeting to recruit volunteers at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16. Kosciusko Literacy Services is located at 201 N. Union St., Warsaw. Coffee and refreshments will be provided. Kosciusko County has an estimated 9 percent adult illiteracy rate, according to a news release from Kosciusko Literacy Services. …read more.

NORTH WEBSTER — Professor Elliot Engel brought Shakespeare’s plays to life during his “How William Became Shakespeare” presentation at The Owl’s Nest in North Webster during the 2019 Author Dinner held by Kosciusko Literary Services.

By CYNTHIA CATES Executive Director Kosciusko Literacy Services WARSAW — Camila is a Read to Grow Children’s Book Club graduate who is now in kindergarten at Lincoln Elementary. Read to Grow is administered by Kosciusko Literacy Services and is a countywide program. Camila is doing very well in school having mastered colors, counting, numbers, and …read more.

NORTH WEBSTER — Kosciusko Literacy Services is hosting the 2019 Author Dinner “How William Became Shakespeare” on Thursday, Sept. 19, at The Owl’s Nest in North Webster. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. The dinner raises much needed funds to provide literacy services. Tickets are $100, of which $65 is tax-deductible as allowed by law. There …read more.

WARSAW — Education becomes more and more valuable with time, something Cynthia Cates, Milford, recognized and what caused her to focus on educational programs in Warsaw. Specifically with Kosciusko Literacy Services, an organization knowing the power that accompanies education and literature. What started as a part time position in 2003 led to Cates becoming executive …read more.

KOSCIUSKO — AHEPA Indiana recently donated $500 to Kosciusko Literacy Services. The donation will support one-on-one tutoring for adults and Read to Grow Children’s Book Club. One-on-one tutoring for adults helps adults who are learning to read, earning an Indiana High School Equivalency diploma or learning English as a new language. Read to Grow Children’s …read more.

KOSCIUSKO — Kosciusko Literacy Services is pleased to announce the book for the upcoming Plant the Seed, Read! Community Book Read as “Bless Me, Ultima.” “Bless Me, Ultima” by Rudolfo Anaya was first published in 1972. His semi-autobiographical, coming-of-age novel is one of the most critically acclaimed Chicano novels. (Chicano refers to a person born in the United …read more.

KOSCIUSKO — The TCU Foundation recently awarded Kosciusko Literacy Services $2,500 to support the Endowment Challenge 50, a 50th anniversary celebration of the Kosciusko County Community Foundation providing matching dollars to build youth-serving nonprofit agency endowments. Karen Mayer, manager at Teachers Credit Union in Warsaw, presented Kosciusko Literacy Services’ executive director Cindy Cates with the …read more.

KOSCIUSKO — One State/One Story: Frankenstein and Kosciusko Literacy Services celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein;” or, “The Modern Prometheus” locally and in communities throughout Indiana. In Greek mythology, Prometheus, a Titan and trickster, created mankind from clay and enabled civilization by stealing fire from the gods and giving it to humanity. The …read more.

WARSAW — This week, the Dollar General Literacy Foundation awarded Kosciusko Literacy Services a $12,000 grant to support adult literacy. This local grant award is part of more than $8.3 million in grants awarded to more than 1,000 schools, nonprofits and organizations across the 44 states that Dollar General serves. Executive Director Cynthia Cates states that the …read more.

KOSCIUSKO — The Kosciusko County Community Foundation announced Endowment Challenge 50 for ten youth-serving organizations this morning, Friday, May 25. This August will mark the 50th anniversary celebration of the foundation. Endowment Challenge 50 is the first of many ways the foundation will celebrate the milestone through the coming year.  The organizations will have the opportunity …read more.

KOSCIUSKO — Kosciusko Literacy Services hosted their 16th annual author dinner last night, Thursday, April 19, at Noa Noa Wood Grill & Sushi Bar, Warsaw. The featured speaker was Adrienne Provenzano portraying Mary Shelley, the author of “Frankenstein.” Provenzano is from Indianapolis and works as a STEAM educator, public speaker, musician and author. She often does portrayals of …read more.

WARSAW — Kosciusko Literacy Services is hosting the sixteenth annual author dinner A Visit with Mary Shelley at Noa Noa Wood Grill and Sushi Bar at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 19, in Warsaw. Adrienne Provenzano will portray Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. While staying in Switzerland during a cold wet summer, teenage Mary Shelley …read more.

WARSAW — Jefferson Elementary third grade students recently wrote persuasive letters to convince new parents to read to their child. Kosciusko Literacy Services donated a board book to accompany each letter. Students hand-delivered their letters and books to the Kosciusko Community Hospital. Students were excited to enrich the lives of others.  

The Friends of the Syracuse Library are bringing local author Jeanne Dams to Syracuse for a salad lunch at 11:30 a.m. April 24. A limited number of tickets are on sale at the circulation desk. The group is making the final plans to provide the full variety of desserts found at last year’s event. The …read more.

WARSAW — Kosciusko Literacy Services has been awarded a Community Read grant of $1,000 from Indiana Humanities to participate in a statewide read of the classic novel Frankenstein. More than 60 other communities will be reading the book as part of One State / One Story: Frankenstein. Kosciusko County Community Foundation and Kosciusko REMC Operation …read more.

KOSCIUSKO — The MutualBank Charitable Foundation awarded $4,500 to Read to Grow Children’s Book Club a program of Kosciusko Literacy Services.  Kosciusko Literacy Services is honored to receive the support of the MutualBank Charitable Foundation.  The MutualBank Charitable Foundation was created to establish a permanent source of funding for charitable causes in the markets served …read more.

WARSAW — This week, the Dollar General Literacy Foundation awarded Kosciusko Literacy Services a $10,000 grant to support adult literacy.  This local grant award is part of more than $7.5 million in grants awarded to nearly 900 schools, nonprofits and organizations across the 44 states that Dollar General serves. Executive Director Cynthia Cates states that the …read more.

KOSCIUSKO — The Esther Pfleiderer Charitable Trust at 1st Source Bank recently awarded Kosciusko Literacy Services $1,000 to purchase books for Read to Grow Children’s Book Club and ABC board books for babies born at Kosciusko Community Hospital.  Kosciusko Literacy Services’ Baby’s First Book program encourages early literacy development in the county’s youngest residents.  Reading …read more.

WARSAW — Kosciusko Literacy Services hosted their 15th annual author dinner Thursday, April 20, at Noa Noa Wood Grill & Sushi Bar, Warsaw. The featured speaker was Professor Elliot Engel. Engel, an author, scholar and lecturer, is originally from Indianapolis. He currently resides in Raleigh. North Carolina. Engel lectures on literary topics throughout the United …read more.

KOSCIUSKO — With funding from The Dekko Foundation and Indiana Humanities, Kosciusko Literacy Services is offering a read-alike book to each third grader in Kosciusko County. While adults and teens may read A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway as a part of Plant the Seed, Read! Community Book Read, third graders may read a …read more.

KOSCIUSKO COUNTY — Kosciusko Literacy Services is hosting the Fifteenth Annual Author Dinner The Importance of Being Ernest Hemingway at Noa Noa Wood Grill and Sushi Bar in Warsaw at 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 20. Professor Elliot Engel will illuminate the life and writings of Hemingway. Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) is …read more.

KOSCIUSKO COUNTY — With financial support from The Dekko Foundation and Indiana Humanities, Kosciusko Literacy Services has launched Plant the Seed, READ! Community Book Read.  If everyone in Kosciusko County reads the same book at the same time, members of the community would find new friends and neighbors with whom to share a good book …read more.

SYRACUSE — The Kenneth and Lela Harkless Foundation announces the foundation has awarded $90,000 in grants to organizations in the Syracuse community. According to James E. Caskey, foundation president, grants were awarded to the following: Syracuse-Wawasee Historical Museum — $13,000 Syracuse Cemetery Association — $10,000 Syracuse-Wawasee Park Foundation — $10,000 Syracuse Parks Department — $8,000 …read more.

WARSAW — The TCU Foundation recently awarded $2,000 to Read to Grow Children’s Book Club, a program of Kosciusko Literacy Services. Karen Mayer, manager at Teachers Credit Union in Warsaw, presented Kosciusko Literacy Services’ Executive Director Cindy Cates with the grant. Kosciusko Literacy Services is honored to receive the support of the TCU Foundation. The …read more.

[weaver_youtube BmR6hYfvwZo rel=0]   WARSAW — “The Wizardry of Oz: L. Frank Baum” with Dr. Elliot Engel was a presentation of Baum’s life from riches to rags, back to riches and then back to rags. Engel provided a humorous presentation to guests at the 14th Annual Kosciusko Literacy Services Author Dinner Thursday evening in Warsaw. …read more.

WARSAW — Kosciusko Literacy Services is hosting the 14th annual author dinner The Wizardry of Oz: L. Frank Baum at Noa Noa Wood Grill and Sushi Bar at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 14. Professor Elliot Engel will illuminate the life and writings of L. Frank Baum and the reasons for the enduring fame of his …read more.

WARSAW — This year marks the 10th year Cynthia Cates has served as executive director of Kosciusko Literacy Services. “It doesn’t seem that long,” she quipped.

WARSAW — Hoping to expand literacy in adults and preschoolers across Kosciusko County, Kosciusko Literacy Services has been working with other agencies to develop the skills need to grow.

WARSAW — The weather was almost perfect for an evening block party Thursday, Sept. 10. Kosciusko County Community Foundation held a free Donor Appreciation Block Party, in front of its building, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the one-block section of Buffalo Street. Approximately 160 gathered throughout the two-hour event to enjoy food, activities …read more.

For most, meeting a life-long hero is the thing of legend. For Sam Weller however, meeting his hero was the beginning of a new world of possibilities. Yesterday at 4 p.m., the author visited the Warsaw Community Public Library to discuss his life pursuit of his favorite author. Weller states his love for author Ray …read more.

By CYNTHIA L. CATES Executive Director, Kosciusko Literacy Services As a part of The Big Read, Ray Bradbury biographer Sam Weller will be lecturing at the Warsaw Public Library at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, and at the North Webster Public Library at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 16. Weller will explore the life and literary …read more.

By CYNTHIA L. CATES Executive Director, Kosciusko Literacy Services Did you know that Warsaw has had two book burnings? Kosciusko Literacy Services will launch The Big Read featuring Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” on Monday, March 16, with “Censorship On Trial,” a panel that will explore the role of censorship and will tackle the topic “Should …read more.

By CYNTHIA L. CATES Executive Director, Kosciusko Literacy Services 37 years have passed since the book burning in Warsaw and 41 years since John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” was banned in Syracuse. Focusing on government ordered book burnings, Ray Bradbury’s novel “Fahrenheit 451”, this year’s book selection for the community book read, was published …read more.

[weaver_youtube JrfZGVOOxgA rel=8]   Dr. Elliot Engel presents the life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, author. (Photo by Deb Patterson) Returning for the 14th year, Dr. Elliott Engel entertained and enlightened those attending the annual Kosciusko Literacy Services Author Dinner in Warsaw Thursday evening. This year Engel presented “Detecting Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,” …read more.

Looking toward the future and achievements of the past year were addressed Thursday evening at the annual Author Dinner hosted by the Kosciusko Literacy Services. Cindy Cates, executive director, stated with a national grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, KLS will host The Big Read next spring. “Fahrenheit 451” will be the book …read more.

By CINDY CATES Kosciusko Literacy Services Kosciusko Literacy Services is hosting the 13th Annual Author Dinner Detecting Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at Noa Noa Wood Grill and Sushi Bar in Warsaw at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6. Professor Elliot Engel will illuminate the life and writing career of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The creator of …read more.

Kosciusko Literacy Services announced the winners of the Walk-n-Wander Essay Contest at the September First Friday Event. Mikayla Mimnaugh won the Walk-n-Wander Essay Contest for Elementary Students. A fourth grade student at Harrison Elementary, Mikayla won a set of five books and a $50 prize. Shown with Mikayla is her younger brother Tyler and Kosciusko …read more.

Art is alive in downtown Warsaw this summer! Sixteen life-like statues created by American Sculptor Seward Johnson grace the sidewalks and street corners within walking distance of the Courthouse Square. Walk-n-Wander Warsaw is a free exhibit available to visit daily from now through Sept. 28. The sculptures are an interactive exhibit, so visitors are encouraged …read more.

The Esther Pfleiderer Charitable Trust at 1st Source Bank recently awarded Kosciusko Literacy Services $1,000 to purchase ABC board books for babies born at Kosciusko Community Hospital.  Kosciusko Literacy Services’ Baby’s First Book program encourages early literacy development in the county’s youngest residents. Reading to a baby or young child helps the child’s brain to …read more.

Kosciusko Literacy Services is pleased to add Kosciusko Home Care as a community partner for the Read to Grow Children’s Book Club. Kosciusko Home Care provides skilled nursing services in the homes of premature babies and children who were hospitalized with a chronic illness. The nurses work closely with families and physicians to meet each …read more.

For the 12th year, Dr. Elliot Engel was the highlighted keynote lecturer at the annual Kosciusko Literacy Services dinner held Oct. 29 at Noa Noa Wood Grill and Sushi Bar in Warsaw. An English professor in North Carolina, lecturer and author, Dr. Engel shared with the audience on Queen Victoria and the Victorian novel. Cindy …read more.

Kosicusko Literacy Services will be auctioning off two trips for two at the Author Dinner, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29, in the Taharaa Room of Noa Noa Restaurant, Warsaw. Dr. Elliot Engel will be entertaining the crowd with a presentation on “Queen Victoria and the Victorian Novel.” The first trip is for two to The …read more.

The Community Book Read is for residents of Kosciusko County from mid-December through March 2013. Free copies of My Ańtonia by Willa Cather are in bright yellow bins throughout the county. Please take, read and enjoy the book. Return the book to the bin so someone else may read the book. The books will be …read more.

By this point, Dr. Elliot Engel needs no introduction at Kosciusko Literacy Services’ annual presentation. For his 11th appearance, on Oct. 18 at the Taharaa Room at Noa Noa Wood Grill and Sushi Bar in Warsaw, Dr. Engel presented on “The History and Mystery of Wine.” KLS provides literacy programs for the community, including tutors …read more.

Taking a different turn for 2012, the always well-attended Kosciusko Literacy Services Author Dinner will feature an author and will be on the History and Mystery of Wine. The event will begin at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, in the Taharaa Room of Noa Noa Wood Grill and Sushi Bar, 310 Eastlake Dr., Warsaw. Dr. …read more.

Kosciusko Literacy Services received a $12,000 grant from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation. The grant provides funding to administer adult literacy classes and expand the adult tutoring program at Kosciusko Literacy Services in collaboration with Warsaw Adult Education at Gateway Education Center. Kosciusko Literacy Services and the Warsaw Adult Education program, now under the Indiana …read more.