Milton Public Library
2011 Summer Reading Club News
Congratulations to the 185 children who participated in the Milton Library’s “One World, Many Stories” summer reading club. We had a goal of 100,000 minutes of reading to earn a donation from the Milton Rotary Club to Heifer International…and we made it! With a week left to record reading time, the club goal was achieved on August 24th. The final total was 113,796 minutes – just under 1900 hours! 104 club members met the individual goal of reading for 300 minutes, while a whopping 84% of club members participated by logging some time. Children ages 5-12 who participated in our summer reading club are also eligible for the Boston Bruins summer reading prize drawing which will be held later in the fall. Keep your fingers crossed!
On August 15 around 110 club members and their families celebrated at the library with an Ice Cream Sundae Social. Bob Reetz, on behalf of the Milton Rotary Club, presented Barnes and Noble gift cards to five lucky readers, and all the kids got to select a paperback book to keep, courtesy of the Friends of the Library. The gift card winners were Alex Malisheski, Thomas Hamblet, Jack Delaney, Thomas DeMatteo, and Franklin Ollivierre III.
Over the course of the summer over 1500 children and parents attended 54 programs at the library, many sponsored by the Friends organization. “One World, Many Stories” was supported by the Massachusetts Regional Library System, the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, your local library, the Friends of the Milton Public Library, and the Boston Bruins.
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