Stimulating Summers
From the desk of Carolyn Petersen The city libraries of Reardan, Harrington and the Ritzville District Library have banded together to tackle a common problem: summer enrichment activities for children which would slow the summer learning slide. Their solution: a day camp for grade school children with the libraries providing essential mid-day programming. Seeing a need and realizing that libraries could play a role in filling that need, Carolyn, the overall project manager for Stimulating Summers, corralled disparate funding sources: an…