Programming at the library is going to be different for some time and our Summer Reading Club "Imagine Your Story" is no exception. Long before the quarantine, we scheduled Cecil the Magician to put on a show for us at the park on July 6th to kick off our summer of activities. While we're still hoping to continue with those plans, it will probably look very different than in previous years. For example, we might not have a local lawyer riding around on the shoulders of our performer like last summer 😊
Our regular summer programming for kids and teens will probably look a lot different as well. Instead of having weekly activities at the library and paper reading logs, we'll be offering our patrons an online portal to keep track of their reading throughout the summer and a chance to collect online badges for completing fun challenges! Of course we can't predict what our world will look like even a month from now, but we're hoping to celebrate all of our summer readers with a "Knights in Training" party (complete with jousting!) later this summer. Details about how to sign up for the online Summer Reading Club portal will be coming in June.
Adults, we didn't forget about you! You'll have access to our online summer reading portal to track your books and activities as well. And one of the activities I'm excited to announce that we'll be doing again this year is our annual Summer Author Series. It’s hard to believe that this is our 7th year! We're still working on our summer line-up so stay tuned for details, including how to join us from home if we can't meet in person.
Thanks to input from many of our patrons, I also applied to host three speakers from the Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau this summer and fall. I always appreciate the scope, diversity and wide range of topics offered, and this year will be no different. Again, because of these uncertain times, dates and times are subject to change but this is our current schedule:
- Who Was Chief Seattle? with David Buerge on July 27 at 6pm
- Heating Up: The Ethics of Climate Change with Brian C Henning on August 31 at 6pm
- Marijuana: Evil Weed or Medical Miracle? with Rebecca Craft on October 3rd at 11am
To all of you, I hope you and your families are safe and well. I look forward to seeing all of you, our patrons, visiting the library again!
Heidi Harting, Library Asssitant
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