Young Reader May Score Some Cool Fun At Ice Show

Mon., June 14, 1999

(From For the Record, June 15, 1999): Phone number left out: The number for Seafirst’s baseball camp was inadvertently left out of an item in Monday’s IN Life section. The number is (509) 535-2922.

School’s out. Any bets on how long it will be until parents hear the familiar summer battle cry “I’m bored”?

Beat the boredom by showing your kids how much fun reading can be.

Kids who sign up for the Spokane Library’s Summer Reading Program before 3 p.m. Wednesday can enter to win tickets and backstage passes to Thursday’s Champions on Ice show at the Arena. The contest is sponsored by The Spokesman-Review’s Newspaper in Education department.

Registration forms are available at all of the library’s six branches. The Summer Reading Program encourages kids to read a little each day and provides recommended reading lists and activities for kids.

In addition, we are partnering with the library and NIE to launch a six-week “Breakfast Serials” project next Monday. We will publish one chapter each week from a not-yet-released book for young readers. At the end of six weeks, you will have read an entire book.

For more information call the library’s Youth Services department at 444-5331 or visit the Kids’ Home Page at www.spokpl.lib.wa.us/kids/kids-home.html. Or call Newspapers in Education at 459-5071.

Most of the area’s libraries, including the Valley and North Idaho, offer summer reading programs and special activities for kids. Call the library nearest you to find out about these programs.

* Play Ball! Registration forms are now available at Seafirst Banks for the ever-popular Seafirst Jammin Baseball Camps for kids, which will take place in July and August.

The free camps, run by coaches and players from the Spokane Indians, fill up fast, so register early.

For more information, call (800) 24-

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