8-30-2024
The English teacher in me is currently being held in chains.
I have a list of items to write about whose only connection is that I’ve been
meaning to do so for weeks.
1. For the Summer Reading Program, children are given
essentially a bingo grid. Twenty minutes of reading allows them to cross off
one square. The equivalent of one line across earns them a ticket for the prize
drawing. Both the June and July grids also offer them two free squares: one for
a food pantry donation, one for a Lakeland Animal Shelter donation.
This year we collected more for each organization than the
two previous years I’ve worked here, enough to fill our contains more than
once. Donations to the animal shelter were sent piecemeal as a patron who
volunteers there would frequently take the lighter items while Miss Connie took
the heavier ones on her monthly trips to the shelter. Food pantry donation,
however, I delivered and am proud to say patrons donated 134 pounds of food to
the local pantry.
2. Tovah Anderson, the marketing department for our Prairie
Lakes Library System, sent out a mailer to residents of the system’s three
counties who moved the first six months of 2024. The postcards act as a welcome
and invitation to visit the local library and sign up for a library card. What
is particularly helpful is that the postcards also act as proof of residency,
which is probably the biggest stumbling block in a world when even the DMV
allows for online address changes.
3. The last two articles announced new fall programming.
Those are easy to write about. Continuation of programs are less easily slide
in but just as deserving of attention. I’ll list them here. For children we
will continue to host Lego Club on its new night, Wednesday. It has been
several years since the therapy dog was part of that event. That will return on
the first Wednesday of the month. Thursdays will see the continuation of the
Preschool Play Group and Teens & Tweens, while Storytime remains on Friday
mornings. For all ages, though admittedly usually adults, the Yarn & Stitch
Group continues to meet the second and fourth Mondays of the month. Lori
continues to volunteer the second Saturday of the month to answer IT questions.
Finally, the Adult Book Club offers two opportunities to discuss the same book.
Readers may select the second Tuesday or Friday depending on their schedules.
4. Labor Day closures will see us enjoying a three-day
weekend. The library will be closed Saturday, August 31st and
Monday, September 2nd.
That’s the list for now. Next week I believe it will be time
for BadgerLink’s new offerings.
Reading Now: Mistaken Identity by the Van Ryan and Cerak families
Listening to Now: Fear on the Fens by Joy Ellis (DCI Nikki Galena series Book 13)
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