The United Way of Lackawanna, Wayne, & Pike Counties has been part of Parton’s Imagination Library Program since 2022.<\/p>\n
The organization has sent out over 110,000 books to children in Lackawanna County, with 3,000 currently enrolled to receive a book every month.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s just incredible what she’s done, and we’re really proud to carry on that legacy and passion,\u201d states Youtz.<\/p>\n
United Way in Scranton has put on a storybook breakfast fundraiser for two years now to support their efforts made possible by Dolly.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat helps offset and bridges the gap for any of the programs that we want to keep going and keep the children receiving the books in the mail each month,\u201d notes Youtz.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe very much has that essence about her of bringing people together, which is also something that our organization does,\u201d says Zamarra Vrabel, Development & Engagement Coordinator at United Way in Scranton.<\/p>\n
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She was able to put on the breakfast as an intern, where she got to see first-hand children receive the gift of reading.
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\u201cThat’s what Dolly wanted, she wanted each child to be able to have the equal opportunity, and what we’re doing is living out Dolly’s dream and hopefully pushing those children’s dreams forward in the future\u201d says Vrabel.<\/p>\n
At Gallery of Sound near Wilkes-Barre, Parton’s music was always a big seller.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was always just keeping up with the times,\u201d says Joe Nardone Jr, owner of Gallery of Sound. \u201cWe’ve always stocked and sold a lot of Dolly Parton over the years.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
No matter her audience’s age, they say her work has a timeless feeling.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe had a lot of hit records over the years and just really popular of people of all ages\u201d notes Nardone.<\/p>\n
According to her family, a small, private service for Parton will be held for immediate family, with a request to make donations to her imagination library.<\/p>\n
Dolly Parton was 80 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Prayers are flooding in for country music star Dolly Parton, who passed away peacefully in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-272714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}