JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Jacksonville student has made a mark at Jacksonville Humane Society as the first child to log 100 volunteer hours of reading to pets. <\/p>\n
For more than two years, Nehemiah Turner has walked into the Jacksonville Humane Society with his Grandma. The 11-year-old has racked up more than 100 volunteer hours through the Pawsitive Reading program, and it\u2019s the first in the program\u2019s history! <\/p>\n
\u201cSoothing, feels good, calm, comforted animals, not like a whole bunch of barking is happening,\u201d said Nehemiah Turner.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n The Pawsitive Reading program is available for kids of all ages. It\u2019s proven to lower stress levels in animals and help kids to work on their literacy skills. <\/p>\n “100 hours read here at the shelter is such an amazing accomplishment over two years. That\u2019s some serious, serious dedication for a young person like Nehemiah,” said Lawrence Nicholas, CEO.<\/p>\n And that dedication pays off for both him and the pets waiting to get adopted. Turner is heading into sixth grade a straight-A student. <\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n “This is a place where we can put the tablet and the electronics down, pick up a good old-fashioned book, and read to somebody who really wants to hear your voice. How can you beat that?” said Lawrence Nicholas, CEO.<\/p>\n Action News Jax anchor Shay Simon asked Nehemiah what his next chapter could look like after reading for 100 hours.<\/p>\n He said, “What\u2019s next? I think we got to set up a new hour. So I think I set up like 110, 150, and 200 hours.”<\/p>\n The Pawsitive Reading program is available now: https:\/\/jaxhumane.org\/read<\/a><\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Jacksonville student has made a mark at Jacksonville Humane Society as the first child…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":921437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,196688,371946,425,371945,13041,77293,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-921436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-america","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville_humane_society","tag-jazzy","tag-local","tag-nehemiah","tag-shaqs","tag-shay_simon","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116885827747327947","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921436","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=921436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}