Summer Reading Kickoff- Be Creative @ your Library!

Yesterday June 15th was our official kickoff of a Summer Long program called Be Creative @ your Library for Summer Reading.  We had hotdogs and watermellon after a wonderful performance of good old fashioned storytelling by Janice Bishop.  She had serious library fines and in lieu of paying them she gave us a performance for a our Kickoff!  How's that for being creative!  

I was not looking forward to the day, simply because I am so short staffed right now.  To top it off my LA I Teal Goodman (My only full-timer at the front desk who just put in a request to go part time last week) came in sick, stuffy nose the whole nine yards.  I said you're outta here.  I called for backup and got Velma from East Falls.  Otherwise we would have had to close, since we didn't have four people on staff.  But at the same time I knew they would send someone especially since I had a summer reading kickoff event scheduled on that day.  

Luckly Geraldine from McClosky school came by as well as Kimberly from the neighborhood stopped by, they became grillmeister and assistant respectively, yet Lyman my Municipal Guard still found it possible to disappear on my dinner break so I had to stay on the floor so their wouldn't be just one person literally on the floor.  Talk about lack of safety.  Sometimes I wonder about Lyman.  It doesn't last long, though.  

Maybe a blog for the teens would be a good activity for them to start this summer.