08/17/2026
Sorting Books, Building Bright Futures, Working Together in the Community
Mount Vernon, Ohio — The residents at Pine Hill Independent Living, on the campus of The Ohio Eastern Star Home, recently put their hands to work to be part of a local community effort!
Residents gathered to sort, by grade level, books that were collected by the Kiwanis Club of Mount Vernon to benefit the newly built Salvation Army Day Care Center in Mount Vernon.
From picture books to early readers and beyond, these books will help fill little hands with stories, imagination, and opportunities to learn. What a great example of how our community comes together to make a difference, one book at a time!
A big thank-you to the Kiwanis Club of Mount Vernon for this wonderful book collection and to our Pine Hill residents for lending their time and helping prepare these books for their new young readers!
Together, we’re helping build a brighter future for the children in our community!