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What's Coming Up? <br /> • Summer Reading Program 2016: "Read for the Win" (sports/games theme) <br /> Monday, June 13 Saturday, August 13 <br /> for Babies (ages 0-3), Kids (age 3-12/6th grade), and Teens (6th-12th grades) <br /> o Details: Kids, teens and babies can sign up as soon as it begins June 13. Kids and teens will <br /> track their reading throughout the roughly two month program. If they complete just five <br /> hours (or four hours for teens) of reading, they can turn in their first reading record/coupon <br /> for a prize. More prizes and greater chances to win the grand prize are available for every <br /> additional slip they turn in. Babies' parents complete 20 play- and literacy-related activities <br /> over the nine week program to receive a prize. <br /> o Local magician and Elk River regular patron Nathan Stockwell will be the Summer Reading <br /> Program Celebration performer at half of GRRL's 32 branches! His "Family Comedy Magic <br /> Show" at ER will be from 10:30 — 11:15 am on Monday, June 20, and is idea for <br /> preschoolers through kids in 5th grade, but all ages are welcome. <br /> • Junior Master Gardeners: A new 11-week series of programs will be held on the library <br /> grounds this summer in cooperation with the Sherburne County Master Gardeners program <br /> of the University of Minnesota Extension office at Sherburne County Government Center. <br /> 0 1:00 pm—2:00 pm on Thursdays, June 16 —August 25 <br /> o Ideal for ages 6-12, but all ages will be welcome <br /> o The original plan was to have kids learn to plant, grow, and harvest plants from a <br /> Master Garden (the library's butterfly garden) with activities, lessons and projects on <br /> the rain gardens (in case of rain, meeting in the library's community room). <br /> o As we have developed the idea with help from Gardens of Eden's Liz Lewis and <br /> GRRL's Beth Ringsmuth-Stolpman, we are expecting about 75% of the programs to <br /> be outdoors and the rest indoors, but not at all off-site. We hope to have the kids <br /> explore the library grounds to learn about the butterfly gardens, native prairie grass <br /> and rain gardens every week. Visitors to class are expected to include the City's new <br /> Parks Maintenance Supervisor and a County Soil and Water Commissioner. <br /> o [Donating vegetables from the butterfly garden was determined against because of <br /> mosquito spraying done by the city there. Going off-site even to visit Oak Savannah <br /> Park was impossible due to the library system's insurance liabilities through MCIT] <br /> For the Friends: <br /> • Thank you for all of your work on the spring book sale! It was great to hear you did even <br /> better than the last two sales!! <br /> • You'll need to select some books for your book club discussion choices for the coming year! <br /> Maybe this can happen at the June dinner out occasion? <br /> • Various members have proposed an updated FOL Contacts sheet in the past few months, but <br /> I've kept forgetting to suggest you add it to your agenda. (For September's meeting?) <br /> • ER HS Awards Dinner is 7:00 pm, Wednesday, May 11 at Zabee Theater (Diane & Roxanne <br /> attending). Winners: Brianna Anderson, Alexa Filipiak, Madison Reichert. <br />