The summers are busy for this Charlotte teacher.

When Courtney Blosser is not in her first grade classroom, she is busy at a Charlotte YMCA.

"If you can offer them any extra support than you should do that," said Blosser.

Last summer, she signed up be a teacher volunteer for the Y readers program.

The Huntintowne Elementary School teacher volunteered six weeks and fell in love with her job.

"I love reading," said Blosser. 

"I want our children to love reading and I think that for some of our struggling readers that is an amazing program."

The YMCA's Y Reader's program is just one month away.

"This summer we are going to be located at 10 schools across the greater Charlotte area," said Blair Campbell, YMCA communications and partnerships specialist.

The program preps students for the next reading level and helps struggling readers retain information usually lost over the summer.

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV)- New Charlotte City Manager Ron Carlee is recommending that the city move forward with the streetcar extension plans that have deeply divided City Council.

In a plan he's unveiling Monday night, he says his endorsement is based on a feeling that Charlotte has a window of opportunity open to it now to secure a lot of federal funding. His implication – that Mayor Anthony Foxx will serve as a prop to that window if he is confirmed as President Obama's next Secretary of Transportation.

Carlee says that if the city can obtain 50% of the funding from the federal government, the remaining portion can be paid through reallocating unobligated city funds.

The Charlotte Symphony Youth Orchestra is presenting its Annual Spring Concert this week.

Under direction of conductor Ernest Pereira, the Orchestra is set to perform pieces by Sibelius, Massanet, Turina, and De Falla.

Solo pianist and winner of the Charlotte Symphony Guild's regionally prestigious Young Artists Competition (junior division) Kiffen Loomis is performing Allegro Affettuoso from Schumann's Concerto for Piano, Op. 54.

Loomis (14) is from Asheville, North Carolina and has studied piano with Suzan Fehr since the age of five.