Once a semester, Toni Courtin, a pre-school teacher at the Brentwood Presbyterian Church Nursery School for 21 years, takes her class on a reading hour excursion to Dutton’s Books on San Vicente, which sets on property recently sold to an individual interested in developing the real estate. Each child is given $10.00 to buy a book followed by a snack outdoors.
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