Reading at Blue Pony Stadium

Blue Pony Stadium won’t just be for exciting football games anymore.

Thanks to the creation of a new program at Havre Public Schools called Literacy Under the Lights, Havre Public Schools youth will be able to spend a night at Blue Pony Stadium reading their favorite stories.

Lincoln-McKinley principal Holly Bitz dreamed up the idea for the program, which will be held for the first time tonight inside Blue Pony Stadium. The program encourages kids in grades K-5 to bring a book and a blanket to Blue Pony Stadium tonight and read under the bright lights of the famous sports venue.

The plan was to implement the program last fall, but the weather didn’t cooperate, and if it doesn’t tonight, the event will be moved to the Havre High School Gymnasium.

Either way, the program encourages more kids to read, including one of the 800 books purchased by the Havre PTO for the event, meaning each attendee will get to keep a book.

The first-ever Literacy Under the Lights is slated to begin at 6 p.m. tonight at Blue Pony Stadium, or, if the weather is poor, at the Havre High School Gymnasium. The program is open to all children grades K-5, and not exclusive to just Havre Public Schools students.