Summer's end

The Library's summer reading programs are officially over. The programs are done. The Library Store is being packed up with "leftovers" saved for next year. And we have one for the record books.

How successful was our summer? Consider these statistics:

Registered to read
Children preschool through 5th grade - 1127
Young adults 6th grade and up - 294
Total registrations for 2008 - 1421
Total Registrations for 2007 - 1051 -- an increase of 370 young people!

This year is the first year we've had a reading program for teens and were very pleased by that 294 registrant response and by the number who attended programs.

Since we reached our goal of 1200 registrants and as promised to the kids, Katherine and Ali will be dyeing their hair orange with red tips and blue with green tips within the next week or so and visiting the schools for lunch. We'll be sure to post some pictures to our website.

Summer's done; we had fun! Can't wait to see what we do next year.

Elvita