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Book Donation

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Chevy Chase Residents Donate Books to Inmates

Residents of the Five Star Premier Residences of Chevy Chase donate books to the state prison system.

When residents of the Five Star Premier Residences of Chevy Chase no longer have use for a book, they don't just toss it away, or try to re-sell it on the Internet. Instead, they donate used books to the Maryland Prison System, so that inmates may have access to a well-stocked library. "We have developed a really nice relationship with the [head librarian] for the Maryland State Correctional Library system, Ruth Mewborn. Our community has donated several boxes of books for use in these libraries," Susan Bick, lifestyle director of the Five Star Premier Residences of Chevy Chase, wrote in an email to Patch. Bick and others at the Five Star Premier Residences of Chevy Chase—an independent and assisted living apartment complex at 8100 …

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