Celtics Host a Special Holiday-Themed Reading Event

BOSTON (December 16, 2009) - The Boston Celtics hosted a special reading event with children from GRASP after school program at the Marshall Elementary School in Dorchester and the Orchard Gardens Community Center in Roxbury at the Ames Hotel as part of the team's Read to Achieve program, presented by Kia Motors. Celtics captain Paul Pierce and players Glen Davis and J.R. Giddens read Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas and played board games with the children.

"We had a great afternoon reading and playing games with the children," Pierce said. "Eating cookies and drinking hot cocoa made for a really fun environment to discuss the importance of reading."

Keeping with the holiday theme, each child was given a board game of their very own to take home after the event courtesy of The Highland Street Foundation.

Read to Achieve is a NBA program designed to promote the value of reading and to build a lifelong love of reading in young people by providing greater access to books. The Boston Celtics Read to Achieve program is supported locally by Kia Motors and ReadBoston.