Wellsville Library "Makes A Splash"

Tuesday - July 27: Every summer the Wellsville Carnegie Public Library holds a summer reading program for area children. Each week librarians and story tellers from around the area read stories to the children that relate to the theme of the annual summer program.

This summer the theme was "Make A Splash" with stories about beaches, fishes, frogs, ponds and pirates. It's a fun, educational hour of entertainment that introduces the young participants to the benefits of reading. It stimulates their minds to think and imagine for themselves what is being read to them. It encourages them to mentally visualize how the scenery, the characters in the story and their adventures appear. Television doesn't do that.

The summer reading program started June 8 with one hour story times held each Tuesday morning up through this past Tuesday. As a reward for their faithful attendance and participation the children were given a special treat for this summer's program.

Beaver Falls resident, musician Bill Pate wrapped things up with an entertaining, interactive special musical program. He got the children involved to become part of the program with singing, dancing and even playing the bongo drums. From what we saw everyone really enjoyed the Pogo dance with hopping first on both feet and then one foot to the other. Pate demonstrated how different musical instruments could be used to imitate the sounds of different desert, jungle animals joining together in search of drinking water. It was a thoroughly entertaining hour that we enjoyed ourselves.

Children reading at least 10 books during the course of this summer's program were rewarded with gift certificates for either Taco Bell or McDonalds. There were over 40 children that enjoyed the musical program finale. Each child was given a bag of treats closing this summer's program.

Thanks should be extended to the various sponsors, the Friends of the Library and especially to the ladies at the Wellsville Library that made this program available to our area children. You ladies are special...

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