The Fulton County Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors and Board of Directors, in partnership with Purdue Extension and the Fulton County Leadership Academy (FCLA), recently celebrated the reveal of the Story Walk Project located within the trail at Woodlawn Health Campus.

This story walk is the first of four that will be located throughout Fulton County.

Jessica Riffle, FCLA Facilitator, is proud of the success of this community project spearheaded by a FCLA community group comprised of Cora Alber, Hannah Bahney, Mindy Duckett, Gina Hierlmeier, and Andrea Stineback.

“Every year the leadership academy breaks off into 4 or 5 different groups that focus on community service-oriented projects.” says Jessica Riffle, “The Story Walk is one of the more successful ones, I will say!”

Mindy Duckett of the Purdue Extension Office explained the Story Walk and opportunities that it will bring to our community, “There are 20 stations around this little pathway and each station has two pages to a book, there is also a prompt for some sort of conversation or physical activity that families can do together as they read the story,” says Duckett, Wellness Coordinator at Purdue Extension. “This story is also bilingual because we wanted it to be inclusive for as many families as possible. We wanted to encourage everyone to feel comfortable coming out and reading a book.”

Thanks to the Northern Indiana Community Foundation and the Fulton County Public Library, there will be three additional Story Walk locations in Fulton County: Talma, Leiter’s Ford, and Kewanna.

The Fulton County Public Library will maintain the StoryWalks and rotate periodically the books so every community can have access to each book.

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