Well, the Summer Reading Program has come to an end. I would personally like to thank you all for participating, and all of you are winners since you read which is the biggest reward.



The winner of the iPod was number 255



All of you that completed the program will be receiving a packet of information shortly, I wish you well in school this next year!



Anthony

The winners for the drawing of the 8th and final week are numbers:

13, 69, 92, 95, 210, 250, 257, 272, 316, and 329

The winners will have a choice between 9 Egyptian chocolates that are 1/6 of a pound each or a tube of Egyptian figurines.

Congratulations to the winners! Make sure all your tickets are turned in for the iPod drawing which will be on August 1, 2007.

The winners of the drawing for the seventh week are numbers:

71, 87, 247, 250, 272, and 316

The winners this week will get to pick between a stuffed toy of Sobek (above), two Egyptian pens, and three gift certificates to Sophie's Place. With only one week, left you all are encouraged to turn in your tickets for the final drawing which will be held on August 1 (yes, for the iPod!)

The next Teen Book Club meeting will be August 13, at 10:00 am. We will be disussing the book Undine by Penni Russon. (Sixteen-year-old Undine, hearing her presumably deceased father calling to her and feeling a strange force growing inside her, travels to the sea to discover the depths of her magical powers.)

The Teen Book Club book for Saturday, September 1 at 2:00 pm will be Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins. (When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy.) We will hold this meeting and determine if interest to continue the club into the fall.

The sixth week of the summer reading program is done! Wow, already! The winners for this week's drawing are:

7, 75, 87, 99, 175, and 248.

The winners get to pick from 3 really cool Egyptian figurines or 3 gift certificates to Sophie's Place. Don't forget this is Harry Potter Week, come and beat the heat at Bemis!

Winners for the fifth week of the Summer Reading Program are numbers:

7, 81, 115, 286, 330, and 356.

They will have a choice between 4 cool books about Egypt or 2 Sophie's Place gift certificates.

Congratulation winners, and have a great Fourth of July!

The winners for the fourth week of the Summer Reading Program are:

1, 99, 113, 176, 209, and 306

They will have a choice between 2 papyrus bookmarks, a papyrus wall hanging (both are from Egypt), or 3 gift certificates to Sophie's Place cafe.

Congratulations to the winners!

Visit Hogsmeade Village! On Friday, July 13, we will be having a great, fun, fabulous, fantastic, well, enough adjectives, event here at Bemis to celebrate the release of the newest Harry Potter movie and book. You will have the opportunity to do a varied amount of activities related to Harry Potter and have the chance to win several prizes. Please come into the library asap to pick up your limited ticket which will allow you to enter Hogsmeade Village.

The first day of the Tissue Mummy Wrapping competition has passed. Teams had to use strategy, speed and a good wrapping technique to make a fast time. Here are some pictures from the competition, and you will have a second chance to compete on Wednesday, June 20 at 1:00. The fastest time was 1 minute and 18 seconds!

The winners for the third week (4 etched mirrors or 3 Sophie's Place gift certificates) of the Wrapped Up in Reading program are:

35, 38, 71, 77, 82, 115, and 282.

Congratulations to the winners, and keep the tickets coming!

We had our first meeting of the Teen Book Club, and you are invited to participate in the second meeting. We will discuss the book, "Wee Free Men" by Terry Pratchett (A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland). We will meet on Monday, July 9, at 10:00am.

Here are the winners for the 5 (five) jewelry items and 3 gift certificates to Sophies Cafe, yes, there were 8 winners this week!

The Winners are: 6,73, 87, 99, 108, 154, 176, and 261.

Congratulations winners!

Thirteen teens helped to make the Horus Mural during the first week of the Summer Reading Program. Here is a picture for those of you that did not have a chance to see it (it will be in the Teen Central section of the library for the remainder of the summer), or work on it. Special thanks to Amanda, Miranda, and Cheyenne for helping put the mural in place.

Are you into anime? Well then come and join the Bemis Anime Team while we watch an episode of the movie "Black Cat". Light refreshments will be served and we will have some giveaways. The presentation of "Black Cat" will be held on June 12 at 3:30.

Alright! The Week one drawing has been held and the winners had a choice between 3 stone (onyx) pyramids or three gift certificates to Sophie's Place (the cafe here at Bemis).

The winners are: 35, 36, 42, 81, 131, and 173.

Congratulations and keep on reading. We have the Horus Mural program on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 1:00 this week- come and enjoy!

The first drawing slips for the SRP are due June 4, 2007 by 9:00 am.

Summer Reading Program (SRP) has started! Hopefully you have gotten signed up for the SRP and are all ready to enjoy your summer. If you signed up you should have gotten a free book, if you are one of the lucky persons that got a book with a large format money bill you can win a prize. Please bring that bill to the library on Saturday, June 2 between 9 am and 5 pm and you will get a prize for presenting the bill.

The final Bemis Anime Team for the this spring will be held on May 8, 2007. We will watch an episode of Trinity Blood and other anime features. Light refreshments will be served.

Teens, be ready for the summer! Coming up is the famous, fabulous, fun Summer Film School. Registration for Film School which is co-sponsored by The Binning Family Foundation and Bemis Public Library will begin on May 29, 2007. That is a little more than a month away! Be ready to be creative. Registration will be held at Bemis Public Library.

More information to follow.

Teens, come into Bemis to celebrate National Library Week. All teens (5th grade up to nineteen year olds) will been given a free book during Teen Literature Day which is Thursday, April 19th. By reading this post you will have knowledge that might make you a lucky winner of a Sophie's Place (Bemis' Cafe) Gift certificate of 10 dollars. Several books will have large format fake bills hidden in them, if you are the first person to show one large bill to Anthony, you will win the gift certificate. If you don't win, you can still join us for DDR at 3:30!