When Linda Grimshaw’s husband died in 2011 after a long illness and she closed her bookkeeping business three years later, she found herself with little to do.? Linda loved to read, so she called the Literacy Council of Upper Pinellas in 2015, thinking that she would volunteer to help people to read.? “It turned out to be much more than that,” she says now.

Linda Grimshaw talks with a student and her daughter at Dunedin Elementary School