Topic: Education
Newport Television’s KPGE-TV Fresno is gearing up for its second annual CBS47 On Your Side Collection Drive & Book Sale benefiting 35 Fresno County libraries. Viewers will be invited to drive to the station to drop off new and used books on August 8. After the collection drive, a public book sale will be held to raise money for the local libraries. Proceeds will benefit the libraries’ reading and literacy programs. Last year KPGE-TV reporters and anchors broadcast live outside the station and received nearly 180,000 books.
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