Celebration at community to benefit local Kids to Kids organization
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Providence, a master-planned community located in the northwestern Las Vegas Valley, will host a children's reading festival to benefit Kids to Kids, an organization that works to advance literary causes throughout Nevada.
The celebration, which coincides with the culmination of Nevada Reading Week, will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on March 3 at the Providence Information Center at Interstate 215, the Las Vegas Beltway north, and Hualapai Way.
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"Kids to Kids is a remarkable organization. Its dedication to introducing children to the power of the written word is a real inspiration," said John A. Ritter, chairman and chief executive officer of the Focus Property Group. "In building a strong community at Providence, we want to help organizations like Kids to Kids, while encouraging our residents to be active participants in reading and helping others to read."
Kids to Kids will hold events and activities designed to help connect young people with reading skills.
The Children's Literacy Festival will feature games for children that integrate books as the central theme. In addition, readings by authors will be scheduled throughout the day from such notables as Ruth Devlin, who authored "A Reader for All Seasons;" Frank Fiorello, a children's author who wrote "When I Read," and storytelling from Maria Silva, an anchorperson with KVBC-TV, Channel 3.
The Festival also will include an appearance by Heaven Can Wait, a no-kill-pet adoption center. The organization has a program called Tales to Tails where volunteers will read stories to children with dogs to help put these young people at ease.
Additional event programming includes an appearance by the Screen Actors Guild Foundation. The Foundation will have its BookPALS program on hand at the festival where performers will bring books to life.
Complimentary food and refreshments will be provided.
Homes within the community will be available for touring.
Providence's parks ultimately will play host to storytelling festivals, writer's workshops, cowboy poetry festivals and chataquas.
The community attempts to re-create American frontiers and the American West.
Focus Property Group, developer of Providence, utilized names of American literary and historical icons to name its parks.
The theme will be especially prevalent in Providence's two baseball parks, which are modeled after classic stadiums from the sport's golden age. The baseball parks will be named after Brooklyn's Ebbets Field and Baseball's Hall of Fame's Doubleday Field in Cooperstown, NY.
All builders within the community made an agreement to eliminate turf from the front yards of the homes in favor of desert-friendly landscaping.
The community's Demonstration Garden will be host to a future series of landscape seminars to educate homeowners on how they can design their backyards with desert adaptable plants.
Upon buildout, the community will feature 33 acres for parks, 10 miles of trails systems and 63 acres for schools.
Providence will be comprised of an estimated 7,500 single- and multi-family units in 39 subdivisions.
Home builders actively selling at Providence include Pulte Homes, Meritage's Homes, Pardee Homes, Lennar Everything's Include Homes, Toll Brothers, KB Home and Ryland Homes.
Builders including Astoria Homes, Avante Homes, Beazer Homes, Fairview Residential, Kimball Hill Homes, R/S Development, Warmington Homes Nevada and Woodside Homes are expected to begin offering homes this year.
The community's information center, reminiscent of the soda jerk shops of days of old complete with wood siding and a large wrap-around porch, is open to the public every day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For more information on Providence and Focus Property Group visit providencelv.com or focuspropertygroup.com.
