Andrea Grundon won the grand prize – a new bicycle – in the children’s summer reading program at the Jefferson public library. She’s pictured with the bicycle, which she was able to pick out herself at All Ability Cycles in Jefferson. With her is children’s librarian Terry Clark.
All children who completed the program were awarded pizza and ice cream certificates, a paperback book, a pass to the Blank Park Zoo, and other prizes.
Hannah Acton received a Build Your Own Pizza certificate for reading the most books…. 172!
Winners of the Find a Robot drawing were Cody McCollom and Brayden Kokenge. Winners of the I Spy drawing were KyAnn Fowler, Gavin VanderLinden and Marcus Rosenow.
Pictured with her are a few of the other 88 children who participated in the program, (seated, from left) Julia Oyres, Haley and Drake Grundon, Joseph Oyres and Kody Hickman. Also pictured are (standing, from left) children’s librarian Terry Clark and representatives of program sponsors Sue Wind of Junction HIlltop Wind, Jean Finch of the Friends of the Library, Danille Curtis of Home State Bank, Doug Meinecke of Breadeaux Pizza, Anthony Rooney of Wells Fargo Bank, Colter Sanders of Fareway, and Heather Knippers and Rebecca Wasson of Dairy Queen. Peoples Trust & Savings Bank, Pizza Ranch, Excuses Pizza Pasta & Subs and the Greene County board of supervisors were also sponsors.
