UNCW Watson Leaders hosts fall festival

WILMINGTON (WWAY) — One group of UNCW students spent their weekend collecting books for children in the Cape Fear.

Watson Student Leaders is a group of education students at UNCW.

At their fall festival this weekend, they collected books for elementary schools in our area that don’t have adequate resources.

Student Leader Jillian Noble says the idea came about when a UNCW employee was told by her son’s school that they didn’t have any higher level reading books available.

Plenty of people like the Barnhart family came to UNCW’s campus to support the effort.

“I used to teach before I stayed at home with these guys, so we were excited to be able to go out and shop for some books to donate to our community,” Barnhart said.

This was the group’s first time hosting this event, and we are still waiting to hear how many books they collected and which schools will receive them.