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Las Vegas nonprofit promoting literacy and building confidence to host a free event for 100 kids on November 21

One hundred Las Vegas children will each take home a book of their own, a plush companion, and affirmation stickers on Saturday, November 21, at no cost to their families. 

Registration is open at besomeonesstickynote.org/event and closes when the hundredth place is filled. 

Penelope’s Confidence Experience runs from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. at Sahara West Library, 9600 W. Sahara Ave. Children ages 4 to 10 hear the book read aloud, make affirmation notes to keep, and leave with a signed copy of Penelope and the Vase, a plush companion, and affirmation stickers. 

The afternoon is built to do two things at once: put a book in a child’s hands and give them language for their own worth. Be Someone’s Sticky Note Foundation, a Nevada 501(c)(3), is hosting the event. The woman behind the event, Danyail Lawton, is an Air Force veteran. 

She served 23 years, including two tours in Afghanistan, and retired at 41. What she carried out was a short story she wrote in the ninth grade and the yellow sticky notes her teacher left on it. 

She kept both for 29 years. That story is now a picture book, and the note named her foundation.