<div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1598624792183">Hi Lori,</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1598624879229">I am an Elementary School Librarian.</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1598624906497">I was excited to do this until I read</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1598624934464">LEGAL NEW MEXICO RESIDENT.</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1598624962624">As a Librarian for over 20 years I prided libraries to be the one place in our society that is welcoming and fair to all people. I would never ask a child if they were LEGAL.</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1598625067427">So disappointing </div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1598625076751">Edwina Tafoys</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1598624959790"><br></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1598624954364"><br><div id="ymail_android_signature"><a id="ymail_android_signature_link" href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a></div> <br> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif; color:#6D00F6;"> <div>On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 10:18 AM, Thornton, Lori, DCA</div><div><Lori.Thornton@state.nm.us> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding: 10px 0 0 20px; margin: 10px 0 0 0; border-left: 1px solid #6D00F6;"> <div id="yiv1655487268">
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<span style="font-size:12pt;">Dear Teachers, Principals, Librarians, and other Colleagues</span>:<span style="font-size:12pt;"></span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:12pt;">We are very</span><span style="font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:12pt;"> pleased to inform you
that the New Mexico State Library will continue the New Mexico Letters About Literature competition this school year. We have created a site for the state competition which should tell you everything you want to know about the contest - </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://lettersaboutliterature.nmculture.org/" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:12pt;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,111,201);"><span style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="text-decoration:none;"><strong>https://lettersaboutliterature.nmculture.org/</strong></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;">. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;">We cordially invite your students to participate in this reading and</span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"> writing contest designed to promote reading and thoughtful
writing by encouraging young readers to read a book and then write a letter to the author explaining how his or her work shaped their perspective on the world or themselves. This is the eighth year the </span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:windowtext;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.nmstatelibrary.org/">New
Mexico State Library</a></span><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"> has sponsored the competition.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><strong>Please see the attached
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the </span></span></strong></span><span class="yiv1655487268MsoHyperlink" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;"><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;"><span style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(75,165,36);"><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36);text-decoration:none;">permission
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<span style="font-size:12pt;"><span class="yiv1655487268MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;font-size:12pt;"><strong style=""><span style="color:windowtext;">Please read the
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and </span><span style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(208,92,18);"><span style="color:rgb(208,92,18);text-decoration:none;">terms of </span></span><span style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(208,92,18);"><span style="color:rgb(208,92,18);text-decoration:none;">participation</span></span>,</span></strong></span><span class="yiv1655487268MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;font-size:12pt;"><strong style=""><span style="color:windowtext;"> including
how to submit entries carefully </span></strong></span><span class="yiv1655487268MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;font-size:12pt;"><strong style=""><span style="color:windowtext;">before your students begin reading and writing. </span></strong></span><strong style="color:rgb(255,0,0);text-decoration:none;"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);text-decoration:none;"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);text-decoration:none;">THERE
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<strong style="font-size:12pt;">All entries must be submitted</strong><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;"> by January 11, 2021.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;">Please visit New Mexico <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://lettersaboutliterature.nmculture.org/">Letters About Literature</a> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;">to learn more about the contest. If you have any questions, please feel free to reply
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<span style="font-size:12pt;">We look forward to working with you and truly hope you will participate in the New Mexico Letters About Literature contest.</span><br>
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<b><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125);">Lori Smith Thornton</span></b></p>
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