Halloween Craft Day
October 22nd was Halloween Craft Day at the Richmond Public Library. Kids were invited to come into the library and make Halloween crafts. This year the kids made two Halloween crafts and were given a small pumpkin to take home.
There were close to 20 kids here for Halloween Craft Day, that’s a lot in this little space but we made do and the kids seemed to have a good time.
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Story Hour in October
October is a fun month for the Richmond Story Hour kids. We get to make Halloween crafts. Sometimes the librarian will bring in some of her Halloween decorations. The kids get to go Trick-or-Treating down main street of Richmond. It’s just a fun time for all.
This year we made hand print spiders, tissue paper ghosts, Canning Jar Mummies, and the librarian brought a really scary decorations to story hour. The kids were not real sure about it. One ran into the other room and one hid under the table. It went home that night. This month the story hour kids also got to have some face painting [and hand painting] and the kids got to wear Vampire teeth.
On Wednesday, October 31st the story hour kids will be trick-or-treating the main street businesses.
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Richmond Librarians go to NEST
Richmond Public Libraries two librarians were gone on Thursday, September 27th, They were attending the 17th annual NEST [NEKLS Educations System Training]. Each September for the past 5 years Richmond has had someone from the library attend this annual event.
This year the Richmond librarians learned about digital photography for the library, A State Setoff program for delinquent library debts, building a Christian collection, making our own library video, and much more. There was also time set aside for the librarians to just talk to each other. This time is alway invaluable. This is when you can learn from others what worked, what didn’t, what’s happening in their library. Talking face to face is also fun. It’s nice to get to know people.
The Barn in Valley Falls if a beautiful relaxing place to be. When you are having a break you can walk the beautiful grounds or just sit on the deck by the fish pond.
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October at the Library
The library will again this year be having a Halloween Craft Day. The crafts for this year are still be decided on. Watch for sign at the library and for those of you attending Central Heights notes will be sent home for the elementary kids with the date and time.
The tentative date right now is October 22nd at 4:30 p.m.…
Summer Reading 2007 is Over
We started in June and finished in August. We have had seed spitting, finger printing, music and crafts a parade and of course a treasure hunt. Programs for the adults and even one for teens only. What a busy summer. Again this year the kids could track their progress by watching the library ceiling. As they read books their face mobile would get more on it. Face for 5 books, eyes for 10 books and so on. Up to 50 books. After 50 they would go to the bulletin board. Teens were tracked by footprints on the wall. The adults were shown on a bulletin board to show every place they read to.
This year there were 38 kids 12 and under who read 1,282 books this summer. We had 12 teenagers and they read a total of 64 books. The adults numbered 16 but they read a total of 235 books. Wow good reading everyone.
This years we also had the guessing jars on the desk. Each Monday a new jar of candy would be put out. Each Friday the winners would be announced. This year winners were: Becky Webb won a jar of mixed candy, Paige Stockard won a jar of M&Ms, Colton McCarty and Chloe LaDuke shared mints, Page Adams and Scooter Kice shared a jar of twister candy, Joyce Toot won a jar of mixed candy, Max Adams won a jar of mixed candy, Justin Springer, Cody McCarty and Colton McCarty shared Dum Dum suckers and Becky Webb won a jar of sours.
Riley 
JustinThe big readers this summer were as follows. Justin Springer of the older kids, 3rd – 6th grade read 70 books this summer. Riley Roll of the younger readers, read 123 books this summer. Damien Geiler and Chloe LaDuke tied for the most books being read to them this summer. The each listened to 145 books this summer.
Chloe
Damien