{"id":870130,"date":"2026-06-16T02:07:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/870130\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T02:07:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:07:40","slug":"youth-salvage-nonprofit-brings-youth-book-signing-to-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/870130\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Salvage nonprofit brings youth book signing to Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; One local nonprofit is helping young writers become published authors. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Youth Salvage Project started as a small local initiative and has grown into a comprehensive support system to make sure no young person is left behind. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Founder Aquila Sharpless is an author himself, who started the initiative to raise reading levels and give children a head start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Aquila Sharpless, along with Irisson Venters and Veyah Sharpless, child authors, joined ENC at Three to share more about their stories. For their full interview, see the video link above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">You can support the authors at Bubba\u2019s 33 in Jacksonville tomorrow, June 16, from 5-7 p.m. at their book signing.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story. JACKSONVILLE, N.C.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":870131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,354147,13978,354151,354150,3188,723,354148,7310,17878,8622,519,19624,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,354149,36907,11108,354145,354146],"class_list":["post-870130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-america","tag-aquila-sharpless","tag-book","tag-bubbas-33","tag-enc-at-three","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-irisson-venters","tag-jacksonville","tag-nc","tag-nonprofit","tag-north-carolina","tag-signing","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-veyah-sharpless","tag-witn","tag-youth","tag-youth-salvage","tag-youth-salvage-project"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116757348756633789","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}