‘SPARK A REACTION’ is the summer reading theme for teens and tweens at Kimball Library this year. This program is open to Atkinson youth entering grade 6 through age 19 (as of Fall 2014).
Register starting Friday, June 6th, by coming into the Kimball Library to receive your tickets and your $5 reading bucks credit. Use it to pay down your library fines or receive future fine credit.
For
each grade-appropriate item you read, turn in your ticket(s) with your name,
phone number, and title of the item you read. There is no required amount of
reading and you can include graphic novels, manga, magazines, novels, audio
books, ebooks – any literature counts. You may ask for extra tickets if you run
out. The last day to enter tickets for the raffle is July 30th.
If you
read an item that exceeds 200 pages, you may enter two tickets for the same
book. Two participation raffle tickets are available for t/weens that have registered
for and attend teen programs. Any Stoneface, Isinglass or Flume
title you read is worth 3 tickets. All
‘T/ween’ events on the calendar are eligible for earning tickets. The more you read and participate, the better
your odds of winning prizes.
When each raffle ticket is
completed, drop it off at the main desk to be eligible for random prize
drawings held weekly. Prizes may include snacks, books, gift cards,
Water Country and Canobie Lake Park passes and more! You need not be present to
win. This year’s group challenge is to have the t/weens submit at least 800
tickets! If they do, the Youth Services
Director (Kathy Watson) will likely have quite a REACTION on July 31st at
7:30pm by having a ball python, millipedes, and hissing cockroaches placed on
her following the Critters & Creatures show. A video will capture the moment! Encourage your friends to play along so you
all can win!
*Most summer reading events have
a required registration, and registration can close 24 –48 hours in advance of
the event start. Register early to avoid
disappointment.
Photographs
of our National Parks are on display through June 29th. Come and prepare to be delighted over Ron
Wybranowski’s inspiring work.
As a
photographer, Ron wants to encourage people to slow down and appreciate the
beauty and magic of the world around us. And it is all around us, not
just in the iconic scenes of national parks, seashores and mountains. It
is in the brooks and swamps in our neighborhoods and parks, there for the
seeing. We just have to stop, look around and let the scenery envelope
us. His goal is to help others do that by photographing nature’s beauty
and presenting it in a unique way which emotionally moves and inspires us.
Ron is
a resident of North Andover, MA and a member of the Massachusetts Camera
Naturalists, a by-invitation-only organization dedicated to the appreciation of
nature and the natural environment. He is a juried member of the New
Hampshire Art Association. He is also a member of the Merrimack Valley
Camera Club (MVCC) in North Andover, MA, and has won over 250 medals and
ribbons at MVCC and in competitions sponsored by the New England Camera Club
Council (NECCC) and the Photographic Society of America (PSA).
In 2002
he received the NECCC Annual Conference Competition Best of Show, B&W
Prints and Best B&W Landscape awards for his print entitled “Walk in the Scary Woods.”
In 2012 Ron’s image of “Aspen in Fog” won Best Landscape in Show at the
NECCC. He won a Bronze Medal in the 2009 Ocean State International
Exhibit of Photography for his image entitled “Waterfall in the Subway” in Zion
National Park.
Ron
has traveled extensively to the National Parks, particularly those in the West.
His favorites are the Grand Tetons in the fall, Arches and Canyonlands in the
spring, and Zion and Grand Staircase-Escalante anytime he can get there.
For more information or a list of
upcoming programs, please visit our website at kimballlibrary.com, call (603) 362-5234,
or email us at staff@kimballlibrary.com.
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