Summer reading program sign-ups are going on now and will continue through June 20th. Be sure to get signed up today! NO LATE registrations will be able to be accepted as supplies need to be purchased and plans finalized. This year’s theme FIZZ, BOOM, READ! will focus on things related to science. We will have activities, experiments, & crafts that involve science and reading. We will offer prizes for perfect attendance during our SRP as well as timed reading prizes for the rest of the summer. If your child will be in Preschool-4th grade next year come in and sign them up today! SRP will be held July 7th-11th this year. Older children are invited to volunteer at SRP, join our Tween book club, and/or compete in our Golden Sower challenge! Call 654-3833, check our Facebook page or website or come in ask for more details!
Adults be sure to come the first Friday of every month at 9:00 a.m. for Coffee Corner and/or join The Bookenders for their monthly meeting on June 16th at 6:30p.m. The selection for June is “IN THE LAND OF SECOND CHANCES” by George Shaffner. In this book set in Ebb, Nebraska, things are pretty much as they were fifty years ago–aside from that coffee shop–and that’s just the way folks like it. Plucky Wilma Porter is the proprietress of Ebb’s only Bed and Breakfast, and she knows everything there is to know in town: the mental state of Clara Tucker Booth Yune, a rich recluse who says only two words at a time; the gossip at Loretta Parson’s Bold Cut Beauty Salon; and the sad series of events that have led poor Calvin Millet to the edge of desperation. Calvin is the owner of Millet’s Department Store, a village mainstay for generations, but many fear that it–and the downtown–won’t survive his terrible run of bad luck.
Wilma prays for a miracle to save Ebb’s special way of life, but she’s surprised when it arrives in the form of a traveling salesman, if that’s what he is. Vernon L. Moore claims to peddle games of chance, but he sticks his nose in odd places and says things like, “uncertainty is the spice of life.” He is welcomed nonetheless, because he seems to have the power to change minds, save fortunes, and fix broken hearts.
The library also offers free Wi-Fi, public computer use, movies, magazines and of course thousands of books! Our children’s corner has a puppet theater for the children to enjoy & we just implemented a new program for the summer called SATURDAY MORNING CINEMA. Every Sat. morning at 10:00 a.m. there will be a G- rated movie playing in our cozy, comfy TV area. Come in and join the fun at HOOPER PUBLIC LIBRARY!