When I'm not reading books to children and singing an upbeat rendition of the Itsy Bitsy Spider, I spend a good deal of time as a volunteer firefighter and E.M.T. So, it only made sense to combine my two loves and have a fire and rescue event at the library. My boss latched on to the idea immediately and we decided to use this a kick-off to our Summer Reading Program.
I began asking around in late fall and a volunteer from the County Fire and Rescue offered to help get the event rolling. We sat down a few times and came up a list with possible activities and participants and before we knew it we had a list of ten organizations and summer was just around the corner.
How could anyone resist? We had food, we had prizes, we had firefighters and police officers and Smokey the Bear. Unfortunately, we also had high humidity and a 80% chance of thunderstorms.
In the end we had 80 people attend the event. Kids came and had a good time. They learned a thing or two, as did their parents. It was a great success. It is definitely something we plan to do again next year.
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