 Happy New Year! I'm Alicia Anderson and welcome to the Fort Report. Do you know how easy it is to get a library card? It's so easy that a baby can do it. Thanks to the Books for Tarrant County Babies Project. In fact, I'm a new aunt and I just signed my baby nephew up for the program. I even checked out his first baby book, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone 84 days now without taking a fish. Kids love this stuff, trust me. Books for Tarrant County Babies is an initiative of JPS Foundation, JPS Health Network, the Fort Worth Library, and the Fort Worth Public Library Foundation. And we're providing a book and a library card to every baby born at JPS in 2017. So we're very excited to help parents remember their important role in educating their children from the moment they are born. Every child has about 20,000 or more words in the vocabulary before they turn three. And so reading even before the baby is born is important. JPS has about 5,000 babies born every year. We are pretty excited to have potentially 5,000 new families coming to the 16 branches of the Fort Worth Library. And these books are bilingual. 2017's Books for Tarrant County Babies is funded in a joint partnership with JPS Foundation and Fort Worth Public Library Foundation. We are looking for funding to continue this program in the future. Every $40 provides 10 books to newborns. We're very excited about babies having this book to take home and to play with and to learn and to help their parents remember that they're their child's first teacher. Visit fwplf.org to donate and volunteer for the Fort Worth Public Library Foundation. Here's a look at other events happening in and around Fort Worth in the next few weeks. For a listing of more events and city meetings, you always can check the calendar at the city's website.