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Local Book Notes: From Houston With Love
Plus: Giving The Gifts Of Literacy, Life & Comics
1. Tolton Transforming Lives.
"At age 57, Tina Wellington is starting over," Robert McCoppin writes for the Tribune.
"Growing up on Chicago's West Side, Wellington only reached a fifth-grade reading level. In years past she got caught up in alcohol, drugs, prostitution and jail. Now she's trying to turn her life around, hoping to work in child development and eventually run her own restaurant, with help from the Tolton Adult & Family Literacy Center.
"I've got a second chance," she said. "It's like being a child in an adult's body. I'm excited to get to school."
"As part of De La Salle Institute, a Catholic high school on the South Side, the Tolton Center specializes in turn-around stories like Wellington, people who have taken a wrong turn and are now trying to make up for it."
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