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Well Wishing Laundry Mat teams up with Dolly's Imagination Library in Gatlinburg for child literacy

The new laundry service said it wants customers to bring in books to donate to to their kiddie play area.

A local laundry business is asking for the community's help to build up a new child literacy program in Gatlinburg with the help of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library and the Anna Porter Public Library.

Well Wishing Laundry Mat held its ribbon-cutting on Thursday at Trentham Place on 951 East Parkway. 

The business is teaming up with libraries to help create a literacy program. They also are asking their customers to bring in books to donate to their kiddie play area. 

The owners said the business is meant to feel more like a home and place to do chores.

"We don't want to have any visitors, we don't want to have any customers -- we want to have guests," owner Gregg Rothberg said. "We have couches for you to sit on up front. A bunch of TVs. We want you to come in here and be a guest, just like in your own home."

The owners said the library will do a book reading there twice a month. There will also be a bible study on Sunday mornings.

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