Magician Richard Landry returns to
Lincoln Public Library by popular demand
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[July 01, 2015]
LINCOLN - The Lincoln Public Library
was again the place to be Thursday morning. The library’s summer
reading program brought magician Richard Landry and his magic white
rabbit ‘Snowball’ back for an encore performance. The Annex building
was filled with young readers and their parents, testifying to the
popularity of the program. According to youth services librarian
Melissa Oxborrow, almost 450 kids are participating this year in the
summer reading program, which offers a multitude of engaging
programs. Melissa stresses that there is still time to enroll in the
program.
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The Lincoln Public Library
is
located at 725 Pekin St., with adult nonfiction and
reference materials in the historic Carnegie Building. The Annex directly behind
houses adult fiction and the
Youth Services Department.
All library events are free and
open to the public. Online, visit
www.lincolnpubliclibrary.org.
Hours are Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Tuesdays
and Thursdays, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.; and Saturdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Phone
217-732-8878 for adult services and 217-732-5732 for youth services.
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The summer reading program this year has a change in format. Each
family will set their own goal for reading adventure. They can
choose a goal of number of pages read, number of books, or time
spent reading.
At the end of the program, the young readers will receive prizes for
achieving their reading goal. “The most prized item is the Lincoln
Public Library summer reading program signature T-shirt,” said
Oxborrow. The cost to purchase the T-shirts is underwritten by area
businesses. According to Oxborrow, kids who earn the T-shirts are so
proud of them that they keep them even after they have been
outgrown.
Richard Landry has been performing magic at libraries, schools,
churches, and senior centers for thirty years. He decided to go full
time twelve years ago. His themed performances stress reading,
respect for others, saying no to drugs, making the world bully free.
He hails from Chatham and was a children’s minister for twenty-five
years.
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“Reading makes you smarter and more imaginative,” he stressed to the overflow
crowd at the Lincoln Public Library.
The next program in the summer reading program at the Lincoln Public Library
will be Thursday, July 2. Contact Youth Services at the library at 217-732-5732
for details.
[Curt Fox] |