Information File Picture
On this February 2020 file picture, highschool college students from the Youth Volunteer Corps of Alpena examine the merchandise after loading tables with books in preparation for the Alpena Information Newspapers in Schooling Guide Sale. This 12 months’s sale shall be held Saturday on the APlex, along with the Enterprise Expo.
ALPENA – For the primary time since 2020, The Alpena Information Enterprise Expo and Newspapers in Schooling Guide Sale are returning to the APlex.
The occasions shall be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. There isn’t a admission charge.
The Enterprise Expo will characteristic dozens of distributors showcasing their items and companies, and there shall be prize drawings all through the day.
Meals shall be out there for buy, supplied by Cops & Doughnuts and Nowicki’s Sausage Shoppe.
“I’m tremendous excited as a result of this can be a nice occasion that brings collectively the entire neighborhood whereas giving companies an opportunity to indicate off their stuff,” stated Justin Hinkley, writer/editor of The Alpena Information. “It’s an awesome likelihood to see what native companies have to supply.”
Every taking part enterprise has supplied one of many door prizes that attendees may have an opportunity to win.
Hinkley added that the NIE Guide Sale raises cash for an excellent trigger.
Because of the generosity of the neighborhood, between 12,000 and 15,000 books have been donated to the sale. Proceeds will go towards getting newspapers into space lecture rooms to assist college students study present occasions and extra.
“Newspapers in Schooling places newspapers within the classroom so children can study literacy, and easy methods to inform reality from opinion, and extra,” Hinkley stated.
On the sale, books shall be priced at $2 per hardcover and $1 per paperback, except in any other case marked. Whereas coming to the sale early will get you the most effective choice, latecomers get the offers, at $5 per field from 2 to 4 p.m.
The APlex is situated at 701 Woodward Ave. in Alpena.
You probably have questions in regards to the NIE Guide Sale, name Existence Editor Darby Hinkley at 989-358-5691 or e mail her at [email protected].
