Lake Elementary School to debut new book vending machine [Video]

MILLBURY, Ohio — Lake Elementary School will debut an inventive way to entice students to get lost in a novel later this week.

The “Inchy the Bookworm” book vending machine will be added to the Millbury school’s atrium to bolster its reading program, the Lake Elementary PTO announced in a press release on Monday.

A ribbon-cutting and dedication ceremony for the machine, funded by the PTO and Wood County-based construction company Rudolph Libbe Group, will be held at the school at 4:30 p.m. on Friday.

The vending machine will be the first one in the school system and will be dedicated to Mrs. Andrea Brady, the late fourth-grade reading teacher, according to the PTO.

It will also “allow students to choose books that interest them to support …