Summer Thank Yous

 

8-9-2024

Until last year all facets of the Library’s Summer Reading Program, reading incentives and programs, came to an end the last Monday in July with the Pizza Party. The incentive portion of the reading program does still end with the party, but programming continued last year due to the late scheduling of Snake Discovery. This year two more Monday programs and the Choose Your Own Adventure Book Club keep our special programs going. We also have one more visit from the therapy dog on August 16^th.

The first two months of summer are the expensive ones, making this a good time to say thank you before officially promoting our fall schedule.

We try to make it clear that the Friends of the East Troy Lions Public Library or FoETLPL are the major supporter of our extras: reading programs, experience pass, and furniture. This summer is no exception. The programs are also sponsored by the Prairie Lakes Library System. They schedule and pay four of our Monday performers including Snake Discovery. That is why other libraries in the system offered the same performances. The other programs were thanks to Ryan Holle and the ETHS’s FFA and Tim Giffin and his crew with eTREC. Tim is donating the rocket launcher to the library, so stop in if your organization has a need.

The year we had fewer tickets to give away as there really isn’t a conveniently located Fazoli’s. We should thank the Wisconsin State Fair for continue to make children’s tickets available. As much fun as the State Fair can be, a bigger thank you goes to Tanis Construction for providing Walworth County Fair tickets for children in the reading programs of all Walworth County libraries.

Miss Maria brought a new idea with her. Kwik Trip has a program for teachers and libraries called Kwik Books. In June and July, we handed out certificates for a free slice of pizza or a garden salad to elementary age children for completing their monthly reading grid. That was a delicious addition.

My final thank you goes to Genoa’s pizza which always offers us an amazing discount on the pizzas. It takes a lot of pie to feed over 100 people.

Now we’re turning our attention to this week’s special programs:

IT with Lori on Saturday, August 9.

Yarn & Stitch and Music & Reading with local author Chet Celenza on Monday, August 12.

Adult Book Club discussion of Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper on Tuesday, August 13 followed by the Library Board Meeting.

Books, Crafts & a Dog on Friday, August 16.

 Reading Now: A Man of Two Faces by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Listening to Now: White Teeth by Zadie Smith (PBS Great American Read book)