OFFICE OF THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF ONTARIO

MEDIA ADVISORY

For immediate release

May 29, 2009

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR ANNOUNCES

BOOK DRIVE FOR ABORIGINAL YOUTH

TORONTO – The Honourable David C. Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, will announce a book drive for aboriginal youth on Monday, June 1, 2009, 2:00 p.m., Queen’s Park Media Studio. THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR’S ABORIGINAL SUMMER READING BOOK DRIVE will last until Sunday, June 21^st, the first day of summer and National Aboriginal Day.

Only brand new books for youth up to age 14 will be collected, with the intention of refreshing local libraries in Ontario’s northern fly-in First Nation communities in the north with the same choice of current books that young people in other corners of the province will relish during the summer months.

As in the past, new books can be dropped off at any Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) detachment throughout the province and, within Toronto, at any Toronto Police Services station. Land Forces Central Area (Department of National Defence) will help pack, sort and transport books.

More than 40,000 new books were collected in the 2008 Lieutenant Governor’s Aboriginal Book Drive.

“I encourage all Ontarians to purchase a book or two for native youth in Ontario’s northern regions,” said Lieutenant Governor Onley. “I appeal to the same generous Ontarians who have wholeheartedly participated in past book drives implemented by the Lieutenant Governor’s Office to donate a new book that will make an enormous difference in the lives of young people.”

MEDIA INFORMATION

Who: The Honourable David C. Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario

What: Press Conference to outline the Book Drive.

Where: Media Studios, Queen’s Park, 1^st floor

When: Monday, June 1^st, 2:00 p.m.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY!

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Contact:

Nanda Casucci-Byrne

Office of the Lieutenant Governor

416-325-7780