Staff photo by REID SILVERMAN
Genesis Hernandez, front, and fourth-grade classmate Jordan Bowers find a different way to carry their selected reading materials Thursday so they can read books to their parents during pajama night at Lexington Park Elementary School. The event was sponsored by the school’s PTA. According to Sue Simmerman, the PTA’s vice president, there were 1,500 books used for the night that were donated by Piney Point and Benjamin Banneker elementary schools, St. Andrew's Church, local Girl Scout troops and the community.