Learning language and baseball

Franklin — Alison Heslin of Sparta and Tyler Rabe of Ogdensburg have volunteered their time to World Teach (www.worldteach.org), located at Harvard University in Boston, which promotes literacy. Alison headed to the Marshall Islands and Tyler will be going to Micronesia. Both island nations are located in the Pacific, but first the two students are required by World Teach to temporarily participate in an organization with a basic skills classroom. They were gladly accepted into the Franklin Learning Link Lab at the One Stop offices, where they worked with the ESL students. Students came from a variety of Latin and Central American nations and one student was from Russia. All were under the tutelage of Dorothy Snider, the lab’s instructor. In addition to classroom time, the students held an after-hours baseball to teach jargon and the nature of the sport known as America’s pastime.