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Byline: Vicki Knopfler

Feb. 23--HIGH POINT ?Children in a program at the public library are reading for chickens. No, they're not reading aloud so that chickens can hear the stories. Rather, they're reading books in order to buy chickens for hungry people around the world. The Read to Feed Book Club is in its second year at High Point Neal F. Austin Public Library. For every 700 books that are read by or to children and properly recorded, the library will donate money to Heifer International to buy a flock of chickens for a needy family somewhere in

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