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Reference & Information line: 704-INFO (360-704-4636) in Olympia area or toll-free 1-800-562-6022.
TRL Web site: http://www.trlib.org

Media Contact: Susan Hanson, Communications Manager, 360-704-4507, or outside Olympia calling area: (877) 284-6237, ext. 2507; e-mail: shanson@trlib.org
Walter Neary, Comcast, (253) 864-4660, email: walter_neary@cable.comcast.com

The Timberland Regional Library Foundation and the Timberland Regional Library announced today that Comcast will donate $10,000 in cash and at least $55,000 worth of production support and air time to further the Library’s Mother Goose Literacy Project and family literacy efforts.

"The Mother Goose family literacy project provides parents in-need with the tools they need to incorporate reading into their lives and the lives of their children," said Ellen Duffy, Timberland’s Youth Services Coordinator. "We are grateful to Comcast for its support and dedication to literacy and to families."

"Comcast is proud to support Timberland Library’s Mother Goose project. We recognize the importance of the special bond that reading together forms between parents and children. This special project strengthens families and supports lifelong learning." said Anne McMullen, Comcast’s area vice president.

Comcast is also featuring representatives of TRL on Comcast Local Edition, an interview program that airs throughout Western Washington at :25 and :55 after the hour on CNN Headline News.

The Mother Goose Project works with community partners, such as Headstart, Community Youth Services, Evenstart and local community colleges, to reach parents in need. Parents receive picture books, activity guides and a multi-week training workshop that transforms reading with children into a multidimensional and powerful learning experience. One Mother Goose parent participant said, "You can learn to interact with your children better and the books can help a parent help their children better understand some real life circumstances."

Timberland is able to offer this program only through the generous support of partners like Comcast.

Timberland Regional Library (www.trlib.org) serves the information, reading and lifelong learning needs of the Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, and Thurston county public at 27 community libraries and 4 school-based cooperative library centers. The library system is funded by local property taxes. Timberland offers 1.5 million books, magazines, books and music on tape, CD and DVD. The Central Reference Service librarians can provide information on any subject, 69 hours per week. Call 704-INFO (704-4636) in the Olympia area or 1-800-562-6022, toll-free, from all other areas or online at www.trlib.org, click on "Ask a Librarian."

Comcast Corporation ( www.comcast.com) is the nation's leading provider of cable, entertainment and communications products and services. With 21.4 million cable customers, 8.1 million high-speed Internet customers, and 1.2 million voice customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management and operation of broadband cable networks and in the delivery of programming content.

The Company's content networks and investments include E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, The Golf Channel, OLN, G4, AZN Television, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One and four regional Comcast SportsNets. The Company also has a majority ownership in Comcast-Spectacor, whose major holdings include the Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the

Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and two large multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia.

Comcast serves more than 1 million customers in Washington State and employs more than 2,600 people here.

Revised 11/22/05