AUTHOR TALK AND BOOK SIGNING

With Dianne Nicolai

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2008
7:00 PM

"A Love Like That" is a story about Mary Kain who is pushing the ripe old age of seventy and is falling in love again. Since she met the handsome once-famous singer, Mary has felt more young and alive than she has for years. But could her daughter be right in telling her that the magnetic Curt McRight is only after her money?

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100th Anniversary Celebration

Saturday, September 27, 2008...What a day! It began early for some when a few women met at Ila Mae's house to prepare sandwiches. The library opened at 10 a.m. and soon board members started to arrive to set up for the program and open house at 2:00 p.m. Board President, Robert O'Reilly was the emcee for the program with Ila Mae Olstad (board member and long time library user) talking about memories of the library from her childhood, Janene Roessler (former librarian, 1994-2007) speaking on the history of the library, Ann Hutton (SELCO director) giving us information on the history of SELCO and how our library played a role in its formation, and Elizabeth Anderson (current librarian) telling us about what the library offers today.

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Preston Library's 100 Years of Service

Celebrating 100 years of service to the Public!!

Open House
Saturday, September 27th
from 2:00-4:00

Program at 2:00

1908-2008

2008 Summer Reading

Congratulations to all of our successful summer readers! A total of 99 young people registered to read in Preston Public Library’s “Catch the Reading Bug @ Your Library” program. For the first time this year we included 0-3 year olds in our reading program. Parents read to their little ones 464 days, while kids in the Read-To-Me group enjoyed a total of 1,173 books. Readers read a total of 41,041 minutes, or 424 hours and teens read 25,757 pages.

In the Read-To-Me group, the following children had over 100 books read to them: Ian S. and Seth R. Our top readers in the elementary through middle school Readers group with over 25 hours of reading were Tyler C., Aliesha H., Hannah R., Marshall R., Delton S., Annalise S. and Gabrielle S. In the teen group, Shira A. and Janelle C. read over 5,000 pages.

Drawings were held weekly for treats and prizes, donated by the following businesses: B & B Bowl, Uncommon Charm, Chic’s Pizza, Foremost Farms, Weber Judd, Johnson’s Hardware, Preston Foods, Sweet Stop, Trailhead Inn Preston Motor Mart, One Stop, Old Maid Popcorn, and Ty Inc.

We would like to thank the following people for their help with programs: Lynn Susag, Cheryl Schumacher, Hannah Wingert, Christine, Travis and Jared Troendle.

The final drawing was done on August 30th with the following winners: Cole R. and Xavier P. won T-shirts; Sadie B., Tianna P., Jeremy O. and Julianna F. won tote bags; Dillon O. won a book pack; Katelin E. and Kelsey S. won travel mugs; and Sage G. won $20 Preston Bucks. Please pick up your prizes by September 30th.