Community Corner
Wolves Player to Visit Des Plaines Library
Darren Archibald will meet young readers on Jan. 10.
This week’s column was submitted Pat Horn, youth services assistant at the .
Children through eighth grade are invited to read for fun and prizes by joining the Des Plaines Public Library’s Winter Reading Club, beginning Saturday, Jan. 7 and continuing through Sunday, Feb. 26.
This year’s theme is “Building Readers: One Book at A Time” and is cosponsored by the Chicago Wolves hockey team.
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Earlier:
We are very excited that this year we will be hosting a team player at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 10. Darren Archibald will be here for a family program to meet our winter readers, to talk about ice hockey and sign autographs.
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Children may register to participate at the Youth Services Desk on the second floor of the library. Read-to-Me Readers may either read 16 books or have those 16 books read to them. Independent Readers read for 8 hours.
Participants will be eligible to win prizes in weekly drawings, and enter a grand prize drawing upon finishing the reading requirements. All children who finish the reading club will receive a certificate of completion. For more information, please call the Youth Services Department at (847) 376-2839.
