Local children enjoyed spending time with residents of the Ohio Veterans Home in Georgetown during the initial Book Battalion book reading event held Feb. 29. Photo by Wade Linville

Local children enjoyed spending time with residents of the Ohio Veterans Home in Georgetown during the initial Book Battalion book reading event held Feb. 29. Photo by Wade Linville

<p>A resident of the Ohio Veterans Home in Georgetown reads to local children on Feb. 29. Photo by Wade Linville</p>

A resident of the Ohio Veterans Home in Georgetown reads to local children on Feb. 29. Photo by Wade Linville

<p>Residents of the Ohio Veterans Home in Georgetown read books to local children on Feb. 29. Photo by Wade Linville</p>

Residents of the Ohio Veterans Home in Georgetown read books to local children on Feb. 29. Photo by Wade Linville

Groups of children gathered as residents of the Ohio Veterans Home read them books, enjoying their time together on the evening of Feb. 29.

The calling was the initial Book Battalion event at the Ohio Veterans Home in Georgetown, an event to help promote Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Ohio.

For the full story, pick up the March 7 editions of The News Democrat and The Ripley Bee.