{"id":135649,"date":"2026-02-16T23:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135649\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T23:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:58:18","slug":"new-reading-nook-at-guardino-elementary-in-clayton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135649\/","title":{"rendered":"New reading nook at Guardino Elementary in Clayton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CLAYTON, New York (WWNY) &#8211; Students at Guardino Elementary have a new spot to read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Thursday night, the school unveiled a new reading nook. It\u2019s an homage to Shel Silverstein\u2019s \u201cThe Giving Tree,\u201d and a tribute to beloved community member Mary Zovistoski. The kids lovingly called her \u201cMiss Mary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Zovistoski passed away last year, but throughout her life she was a major advocate for childhood literacy. She helped Guardino Elementary with Jumpstart\u2019s Read for the Record program which puts books in the hands of kids. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Guardino Elementary PTO Vice President Kelly Picunas believes Miss Mary would be proud of the new nook. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe idea of \u2018The Giving Tree\u2019 is something that reminds us of her,\u201d said Picunas. \u201cShe just was such an amazing supporter, a giving person and would do anything to help our school out but also anybody out. She was just a wonderful lady.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Kids will be able to enjoy the nook when they return from mid-winter break. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLAYTON, New York (WWNY) &#8211; Students at Guardino Elementary have a new spot to read. Thursday night, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33567,57615,9,11,10,49,51,50,57614,3904],"class_list":{"0":"post-135649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-clayton","9":"tag-guardino-elementary","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-new-york-state","14":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-state-news","16":"tag-reading-nook","17":"tag-wwny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}