An early learning literacy grant from the state is showing some dividends in the Columbia River Gorge region.  Nancy Patten of Child Care Partners at Columbia Gorge Community College says 80 people who work with young children took part in a series of five trainings in the past year on early literacy for dual language learners.  She says they gained valuable skills to help those children learn in two languages.  The grant also allowed the purchase of several thousand dollars worth of bilingual and multi-cultural books that will be given to the Hood River County and The Dalles-Wasco County libraries.