Colonel Sekou Karega, commanding officer, Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, Calif., and Jamie Collins, Marine Corps Community Services, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton; present medals to some of the 50 children from the base who participated in the Summer Reading Program at the base library, July 17. Collins said summer reading helps prevent so-called “summer slide” where students have to spend six to eight weeks of the new school year relearning what they were taught last year.

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