Jill Schramm/MDN Pat Bolyard, president of the Minot Literacy Volunteers, left, and Angelina Edison, executive director/program coordinator for the organization, set up Saturday, Nov. 15, for a book sale that runs Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 20-22.

Residents looking to improve their skills in reading, writing or speaking have a friend in Minot Literacy Volunteers, a grassroots organization dedicated to providing that personal tutoring.

Minot Literacy Volunteers formed in the late 1980s as a nonprofit organization to provide instruction to meet the individualized literacy needs of the people of the area, said Angelina Edison, executive director/program coordinator.

“It’s one-on-one, confidential,” she said of the free services offered by volunteers. Tutoring takes place at public locations,

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