BY DAN HILDEBRAN
Monitor Editor
KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— The City Council awarded a retired elementary school teacher a key to the city and proclaimed Oct. 3 as Teri Sapp Day during its Oct. 3 meeting.
Mayor Karen Lake read a proclamation to accompany the key to the city, which said Sapp and Carey Morford, now pastor at the Mission of the Dirt Road, founded the nonprofit Seeds of Grace and its Book Bus to deliver books to children in the High Ridge Estates Neighborhood.
The Book Bus started as an uncovered trailer, but as the pair secured grant funding, the bus evolved into a covered trailer.
Lake said the city appreciates Sapp’s commitment to literacy as well as her love for the families of High Ridge Estates.
Sapp said that in addition to parking the bus in the neighborhood east of Keystone Heights on the weekends, she also hosts a toddler storytime on Friday mornings at Mission of the Dirt Road.
“It’s not a library,” Sapp said of the Book Bus. “I always say that because people get confused. They think that they have to bring the books back. Nobody has to bring the books back.”
