Hope House director Katie Terrell will speak on “Wilmington’s Hope House: Ten Years of Caring for Rough Sleepers in Clinton County,” at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, April 4, at the Sabina Public Library.

The program is part of Clinton County Reads 2024, which features Tracy Kidder’s bestselling nonfiction book, “Rough Sleepers,” about Dr. Jim O’Connell’s decades-long work with Boston’s homeless population.

Terrell grew up in New Vienna and is a graduate of East Clinton High School and Baldwin Wallace University. She worked as a book and magazine editor and a missionary at an orphanage, in San Felipe, Mexico, before returning to Clinton County, where she served at a volunteer hostess at Hope House for three years before becoming house manager in 2021, then director in 2022.

Previous Hope House directors are Tammy Beery, Tracy Scalf, and Sarah Martin.

Library director and CCReads Steering Committee member Peggy Dunn says the Sabina Public Library and its New Vienna branch are accepting donations of needed supplies for Hope House until April 4.

All Clinton County Reads events are open to the public and are posted in the Wilmington News Journal upcoming events, on local library websites, and on the Clinton County Reads Facebook page.

Copies of “Rough Sleepers” are available at all public libraries in the county and through Books ’n’ More at booksnmore.indielite.com, which sponsor and coordinate the annual countywide reading program.